Books with author Angela Hunt

Cassie knows she is meant to be a professional singer. So it makes sense that she should attend the prestigious—and expensive—school for the performing arts. Unfortunately, her newly divorced parents don't agree.Then, just when Cassie begins to lose all hope, she discovers an unlikely ally—her mother's new boyfriend. There's only one problem: Cassie can't stand the man!

Life is wonderful! At least, that's what thirteen-year-old Cassie believes. Everything seems perfect: she's tried out for--and won--the lead role in the eighth-grade musical AND she's going with the best-looking guy in school. Cassie is sure of one thing: nothing can stop her now! Then her dad moves out. And suddenly Cassie's perfect world comes crashing down around her . . .

In the gathering darkness, Nicki and Christine swam quietly toward the Mary Celeste II. The water was as black as ink around them, and Nicki tried not to think of the living things that might be passing by her in the warm water.They reached the stern of the boat where the overhead light on deck threw shadows in the water. Nicki lifted her face mask. "Are you going to climb up, or should I?"Christine's mouth fell open and her eyes bugged. "Behind you," she squealed. "Look!"Nicki whirled around. Behind her something was rising out of the water-something big and dark and sinister, with arms like a giant sea serpent!Nicki Holland expected fun and sun in the summer before her eighth grade year-not mysterious strangers and counterfeit cash! Nicki, Meredith, Kim, Christine, and Laura are warned to leave the mystery alone. But when Nicki is threatened, she has to solve the mystery to save her own life!

To whom it may concern,Thank you for taking care of my baby, Rosalind. I hope you will forgive me for the unexpectedness of this situation, but I cannot give Rosalind the home she deserves. I hope you will see that she is well taken care of and loved. Please do not let anyone harm her. Tell her I loved her very much.Thank you.Nicki and her friends expected a normal flight home from Ireland until Laura meets a woman in the airport and offers to watch her baby. When the woman fails to board the plane with the girls, Laura and Nicki find a note in the baby's diaper bag. Did the mother really abandon the child? Was the woman in the airport really the baby's mother, or was she the kidnapper? Nicki and her friends have only eight hours to find answers to their many questions about the baby in their care.

"Hurry," Laura urged Meredith. "This place is spooky when it's this quiet.Meredith stood at the end of the lane, concentrating. Suddenly the few remaining lights flickered. A bright figure appeared from nowhere and seemed to float over the lanes until it hovered over lane thirteen."Ohmigoodness," Christine whispered. "This place really is haunted!"Nicki and her friends thought it would be fun to help Meredith's uncle at Lowell Lanes for the summer. But then the lights went out and strange things began to happen. Is Lowell Lanes really haunted? Can Nicki and her friends solve the mystery before Mr. Lowell is driven out of business?