Books with author Phyllis Perry

The Secrets of the Rock is the third book in the Fribble Mouse Library Mystery Series. While on a clean-up project in the park, Fribble discovers an old rock bearing a brass plaque that is so dirty that he can't read it. When he and his brother and visiting aunt clean up the plaque, they uncover several questions? For whom was the plaque a memorial? Who was the Handcuff King? Why had he made a trip to Cheddarville so many years ago? Why is there a line of music written on the plaque? While finding the answers to these questions, Fribble must use his best library skills. He also must get ready to perform in the big Fall Festival at school.

Carlton Winklehockey, better known as Wink, and his two friends, Aaron and Dynamike, are counting up the profits from a school popcorn sale when they discover an unusual coin. Investigation shows that this nickel is called a three-legged buffalo, the result of a mint error that produced a small number of nickels showing the buffalo with only three legs. Instead of being worth five cents, this coin is worth a few hundred dollars! What to do? How to find the owner? The boys, working as the WHAM (Winklehockey, Aaron and Mike) Agency, solve the case.

Integrate language arts with science, social studies, and mathematics. This book provides summaries of children's literature and nonfiction books related to rain, wind, snow, and sunshine. Suggestions of books that combine elements of fiction and nonfiction help students move easily from fiction to nonfiction reading. Discussion starters and student activities extend learning with books that range from simple picture books to full-length chapter books. All have been recommended by children's librarians, and with copyrights after 1980, are readily available. Grades K-5.

In this fiction books, Brtittany, quiet and withdrawn since the death of her father in an automobile accident, faces new challenges when her mother remarries. They move to a ranch in southeastern Colorado. Even though she can't ride, Britt is given a horse named Comet. She meets new people and faces new situations. In time Britt learns to care for and ride a horse, makes new friends, and in a life-or-death situation, Brittany overcomes her fears and saves the day.

In this novel,thirteen-year-old Troy Thompson has moved fromTexas to Boulder, Colorado, a month before he is to begin eighthgrade. Because he knows no one in town, he turns to his oldhobbies of geocaching and skateboarding to fill his summer time.While hunting caches and practicing skateboarding tricks,Troy makes friends with Lisa Jo and her grandfather and makesenemies of three boys entering ninth grade. When part ofLisa Jo's inheritance is hidden away in a cache, geocachingbecomes more than a game.Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date found and signs it with established code name. Plastic storage containers may hold items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaches are currently placed in over two hundred countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica, and the International Space Station.After more than twelve years of activity, there are nearly two million active geocaches published on various online sites. Some estimates suggest there are more than five million geocachers worldwide. HIDDEN AWAY, a story about geocaching, and skateboarding, is intended for all enthusiasts and the young at heart, but particularly those aged 10-14.