With her first step off the airplane and into bright tropical sunlight, ten-year-old Jess McConnell begins an adventure. She and her parents are spending five months at an archeological dig of ancient Maya ruins in the Central American country of Belize.
Libby has always wanted a horse of her own, and caring for her neighbor's horse Thunder is the next best thing. When she discovers Thunder is being abused, Libby knows she has to rescue him, no matter what the risk!In this exciting adventure, Libby finds
George was once a bouncy pup; now his pace is steady and slow. Still, he feels special. Then - "Ya-yippity, yappity, yeep-yeep-yeep!" - a stray dog bristling with energy lands on George's doorstep and wiggles himself right into George's family. Full of tr
Sometimes – the more the merrierI set off one morning in my little red canoe.My dog wagged his tail."Can I come, too?""You bet," I said."A trip for two – just me and you."But when "with a slap and a swim" Beaver scrambles in, and then "with a ‘woo-h
When Grace learns that her grandparents' bakery might be closing after 30 years, she's crushed. She can't imagine her life (or her hometown) without the bakery. And how can her own business survive if the one that inspired her cannot? Grace wonders if she
Nine-year-old Grace is always thinking up big ideas, like starting a business with her friends over the summer! When Mom announces a trip to Paris instead, Grace gets on board, but it quickly seems as if none of her plans are working out the way she'd hop
Back home in Massachusetts, Grace is excited to start a new French baking business with her friends, and to have an adorable new dog to train, too! But she quickly learns that both the business and the dog are big responsibilities, especially when her ene
Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose hasn’t said a word in eleven years—ever since the day she was found lying in a snowbank during a howling storm. Like her voice, her memories of her mother and what happened that night were frozen. Set during the roaring 192
Chrissa Maxwell moves to a new school in the middle of the year, and the girls in her fourth-grade class are decidedly unfriendly. On the advice of her grandmother, Chrissa tries first to be nice, and then to ignore the mean girls. But they just won't qui