Books with author KarenWallace

Paperback. Pages: 160 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster Childrens ... It all began the day my brother and I decided to poison our mother This is Nancys story Naturally inquisitive. shes always getting into trouble. along with her dreamer.. . pain-in-the-butt older brother Andrew. best friends Clare and Amy who live in the back of an old car. and weird sisters Sandra and Tracy. with their magazines full of boys. The children have known each other and their families for ever. but everything they thought they knew. is about to change. Filled with sparkling ideas and vivid dialogue. this is the story of a summer when old dreams are shattered and new dreams are born. For Nancy and her friends. things will never be the same ...

Lady Violet Winters is resourceful, independent, and fearless. Her father's American ward, Garth, is her trusty companion and together they are constantly on the lookout for adventure, finding social conventions restrictive. Visiting Egypt with Violet's parents in the spring, they are soon drawn into intrigue. Arriving in Cairo, they visit the bazaar, packed with richly woven cloth, mounds of spices, and endless antique jewelry. Together, Violet and Garth witness a fellow steamer passenger in deep conversation with a trader and immediately suspect him of plotting. Later, they see him crocodile-hunting, as they sail down the Nile. When Violet accidentally falls into a tomb, she discovers him overseeing the theft of ancient treasures and making plans to smuggle it back to England. But try as she and Garth might, they can't work out where he's hidden the treasure. That is until a woman leads them to an exciting discovery and the secret of the crocodiles.