Books published by publisher House-Mouse Press

Meet George. He's strong, as a giant dinosaur should be, strong enough to wreck a plane! (Of course he thinks it's his old enemy, the flying Pteranodon.) He's loyal. He'll do anything to help Joan and Joey save their mother's ranch at Cricket Creek, even chase a bank robber. He's shy. He's so shy he gets Joan and Joey into hilarious, dinosaur sized trouble!

Gus and Mouse have moved into the Historical Museum, living there with Mr. Frizzle and Cora the cat. Late one night, Cora came in from a moonlit walk and said, "A baby ghost's outside." "What do I do with it?" Gus cried. With Cora s help and a book about caring for ghostly babies, Gus manages just fine. However, cranky Mr. Frizzle soon demands that Gus gets rid of baby ghost. How do the two caretakers of the Historical Museum settle their differences? Well it turns out that not only is Gus a friendly ghost, but a smart one too!

Sherry Alston was never told about her half-sister, Miranda. Yet soon after Sherry arrives at her Aunt Judith's house, she somehow begins to learn of the dead girl's secrets. Lindsey and Tammy, who live next door, decide to keep an eye on Sherry. Gradually, they too begin to feel Miranda's presence. As the unexplainable incidents multiply, Miss Judith convinces her brother to try communicating with his daughter's spirit through a medium. Tammy and Lindsey, suspicious of the famous medium, unmask her powers only to find that there are deeper mysteries still. This is a haunting story of two half-sisters, trying to declare their need for love and recognition. The eerie mood of mystery that surrounds the Alston family is perfectly captured in Trina Schart Hyman's illustrations. Trina illustrated children's books for over thirty years, receiving the Caldecott Medal for Saint George and the Dragon. A new afterword provides an in-depth look at the author's life.

A sparkling collection of poems from Twice-Carnegie Award winning author Berlie Doherty. These poems will make you laugh and make you cry. They tell you what it is to be you. They look into your secrets. They look into your dreams!Enter a world where fish swim in the sky and shimmer like stars.Visit the valley of the village of secrets,Run away with the circus school.Meet dodos, iguanas, hobgoblins and dragons,But watch out for killer plants and the terrifying Boggart!Praise for Berlie DohertyThe Company of GhostsDoherty’s superb control of her material and her beautiful use of language have never been more perfectly combined than in this genuinely chilling ghost story … Eerily atmospheric, emotionally authentic, this is a powerful and touching coming-of-age adventure with romance at its heart’Daily MailDaughter of the Sea‘Tension, emotional honesty and more than a touch of cold northern poetry as well’Philip PullmanDeep Secret - Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Fiction Award‘Beautifully written and compulsively readable, a must for young teens.’Independent Dear Nobody - Winner of Carnegie Medal and turned into stage production and BBC Drama‘Quite simply outstanding’IndependentAbela'Abela is a character who leaps out of the pages and with whom every child who reads the book will identify. Doherty’s enormously impressive achievement is to make adult subjects … understandable for young readers without once talking down to them. She transports us to both Sheffield and Africa… It is an involving, moving and above all, relevant novel that ought to be in every school library in the land and put into the hands of as many children as possible.’Adele Geras, the GuardianStreet Child‘An exciting, moving story of the appalling conditions of Victorian London and the deprivation suffered by those who often, through no fault of their own lived lives of abject poverty and danger’Books for Keeps

I, King Rupert Pickle XIV, hereby declare that all the characters and events chronicled in this tale are true and authentic. All the people portrayed by the author lived at the time of the Pickle-Chiffon Pie Olympics held in June of 1348. The Olympic events reported in the story (dragon wrestling, the giant climb, the moat swim, etc.) actually took place and the winners accurately reported herein. None of the names were changed, nor were locations altered. I have affixed my royal seal and do hereby attest to the accuracy of this statement. (Well, sort of.) Rupert XIV

Andy was in town getting a block of ice for his mother's ice chest, a heavy iron point for his father's plow, and a bag of horehound candy for Grandpa when he saw the circus poster! If only he could buy a ticket to see the clowns but "Great snakes, boy," said Grandpa, "don't go bothering people for money. If you want a ticket to the circus, go to the circus ground and get yourself a job. They'll pay you with a ticket to the big show." Follow along as kind-hearted Andy rises at daybreak, pedals his way to town seeking a job, while helping family and friends along the the way. Will he make it in time? Will there be a job with the circus for Andy? Will he earn a ticket to the big show? Ellis Credle penned this humorous classic nearly fifty years ago. It's been delighting readers for generations, while exemplifying the values of self-reliance and kindness to others.

Ray Perry was a farm boy from rural West Texas when America entered World War II. He always had a fascination with planes, so he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps with the intention of becoming a pilot. The Army Air Corps needed tail gunners, however, so Ray served his country at the back end of a B-17, completing thirty-five combat missions before the war’s end. This is the story of his World War II adventure, wrought with tragedy and excitement and every emotion in between. This is also the story of how a young man from a small West Texas town handled the upheaval that comes with war. Based off numerous primary source materials, Ray’s story unfolds through his letters, photos, and mementos. The book’s foreword is written by his son, and former Texas governor, Rick Perry. “I never was rattled . . . . I could never remember really being scared. I know I was. Had to be. But I had control of it.” “The pilot sent the radio operator back there to see if they got me . . . and he climbed, crawled, right there beside the side of that tail wheel, and he never did get back all the way where I was at, but he . . . saw me sitting up and he saw me move a little. So, he went back and told the pilot, ‘I guess he’s alright. I think he’s still alive.’” —Ray Perry, from the book

"Wait a minute!" Mr. Shaw said. "You want to take me back to the nineteenth century, to marry somebody there?" His daughter Susan must be mad! Only a girl suffering from hallucinations would make a request like that, on top of a wild story about a good witch, an elevator that travels to 1881, a vanquished scoundrel, a dug-up treasure, and a distressed nineteenth-century family named Walker. Better humor her, Mr. Shaw thinks, until I can get her to a doctor. Susan is not mad. Her story is true. She and her new best friend Victoria Walker just know that when their parents meet it will be love at first sight, and the two families will become one. But nothing happens the way it should. Their parents meet and don't fall in love. Domineering cousin Jane forbids more meetings. The treasure disappears overnight. The vanquished scoundrel returns, with sinister plans. Everything is spinning out of control! So why does an old photo show that Susan's and Victoria's dream comes true?

In this classic tale from 1967, Mrs. Pine decides to visit her sister in New York. Mr. Pine tells her that he can take care of the house while she is away. "Housework is easy," he says. But he soon changes his mind. The house gets messier and messier and, oh no, Mrs. Pine is coming home tomorrow!Children of all ages will enjoy this third book in the Mr. Pine series.

In a snow covered village, while children all sleep, the Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snitcher, lands with a leap! All the sprinkles he snitches, it's his Christmas fun, but without sprinkles the baking cannot be done! The villagers panic, but says Little Nat, "I'll track down the Snitcher wherever he's at!" Will Nat find the Snitcher? Will the Snitcher relent? Will the cookies be baked? Will the Snitcher repent? Will Nat lose the trail? We he fall through the ice? If Nat finds the Snitcher, will the Snitcher be nice? These questions are answered for all to enjoy!