Books with author J. Verney

"I urge you to worship me." -- Salem Salem is being terrorized! When Hilda brings home a tiny kitten she finds, Salem feels out-cuted and downright ignored. What's worse is that the "temporary" guest acts more like a permanent pet, sleeping in Salem's favorite spots, following him everywhere, and monopolizing Sabrina and her aunts. Salem doesn't like to share -- especially with a little furball -- so he does a few not-so-nice things and lets the kitty take the blame. But when a huge goon with a Doberman shows up, causing more commotion than a hair-ball, how far will Salem go to prove that he's the Spellman's top cat?

John Verney is obviously writing far more for his own pleasure than for children and this is the way the best children’s books get written.”―Madeline L’Engle, New York TimesTwelve-year-old February Callendar and her older brother Friday are home from boarding school for the summer. For fun, Friday has been digging a tunnel through the backyard. When their father, a war correspondent, leaves to cover an international crisis, the siblings escape their mother and their tutor and get wrapped up in a crisis of their own. They can hardly believe it when their search for clues―including a suspicious plane crash, a mysterious mineral, and a comic strip with secret messages―leads right back to Friday’s tunnel and a chance to save the world during their summer vacation.

John Verney is obviously writing far more for his own pleasure than for children and this is the way the best children’s books get written.”―Madeline L’Engle, New York TimesThirteen-year-old February Callendar is upset to learn that a highway will soon be built through her family’s land. When she sees her father swipe a letter off a neighbor’s desk, she begins to suspect that shady dealings have taken place. Can she unravel the mystery, discover who keeps sabotaging the bulldozers, and, most importantly, save the family farm?