Books published by publisher 4rv Tweens

"Winging It with Peanut Butter and a Pocket Cross"Twelve-year-old CA surfer dude H.P.’s relo to IL winter is the last straw. Too many changes jerking him around. Absent Dad. Grandfather’s move to heaven. Mom taking a poverty-job at the Coffee Pot Cafe. Nothing to hold on to.Then Grandfather’s words sink in: “Stand for something or you stand for nothing.” Empowered, H.P. steps out in his faithful Converse armed with a Pocket Cross and a Post-It Note found in an old Bible for a Mission Possible.Somehow, he has to man-up and find out who he is and what he stands for.Geek peep “Owl” and H.P. start KOLTs, Knights of the Lunch Table, to counter classmate put-downs about bibliophiles, girlie names, moppy hair, and lackluster basketball prowess. They vow knightly virtues of courage, bravery, throw in some passive resistance, and peanut butter recipes to even things out.Things could change forever when you swap out “H.P., Horrible Person” for “H.P., Honorable Person.”

Ten-year-old Leona Chapter doesn't understand why her papa left his six children at the Brooklyn Home for Homeless Children after their mother's death in 1921. Each day she prays he'll return and take his children home. God, however, isn't listening. Her brothers and sisters are either adopted or run away, leaving only Leona and Baby Mildred in the orphanage. Leona promises she and Mildred will be together for always. A promise she cannot keep, for Leona, along with her friend Noah, who she defends from the bullies Hiram and Jehu, and several other orphans, are soon on a train headed to Texas, while her sister stays at the orphanage. Leona vows she'll go back to Brooklyn, the first chance she gets. An Orphan Tran tale of the early 1900s

"Wring It with Peanut Butter and a Pocket Cross:Twelve-year-old CA sufer dude H.P.'s relo to IL winter is the last straw. Too many changes jerking him arouond. Absent Dad. Grandfather's move to heaven. Mom taking a poverty-job at the Coffee Pot Cafe. Nothing to hold on to.Then Grandfather's words sink in, "Stand for something or you stand for nothing."Empowered, H. P. steps out in his faithful Converse armed with a Pocket Cross and a Post-It Note found in an old Bible for a Mission Possibe.

Wendy Wiles attracts ghosts, first in Ghost for Rent, when her parents separate and she, her brother, and mother move into a haunted house. The mystery of who the ghosts are and why they "live" in the Wiles' home brings answers and a reunited family. In Ghost for Lunch, new neighbors and their restaurant bring new ghosts into Wendy's life, and she, her brother, and their new friend discover the two cases are connected.

Ten-year-old Leona Chapter doesn't understand why her papa left his six children at the Brooklyn Home for Homeless Children after their mother's death in 1921. Each day she prays he'll return and take his children home. God, however, isn't listening. Her brothers and sisters are either adopted or run away, leaving only Leona and Baby Mildred in the orphanage. Leona promises she and Mildred will be together for always. A promise she cannot keep, for Leona, along with her friend Noah, who she defends from the bullies Hiram and Jehu, and several other orphans, are soon on a train headed to Texas, while her sister stays at the orphanage. Leona vows she'll go back to Brooklyn, the first chance she gets. An Orphan Train tale during the 1920s.

When his father is sent overseas with his National Guard unit, fourth grader Billy Beechum misses him so much he mopes in his room for days. Famous children's author Samuel Jenkins moves into the house next door, and the elderly, wheelchair-bound writer talks Billy and his friends into joining him in an adventure to capture the hooticat, a mysterious creature with a secret, that appears only one nightevery hundred years. Will Billy and his friends capture the hooticat and learn its centuries-old secret, or will it elude them and keep the secret to itself for another hundred years?

Twelve-year-old Wang longed to be an Eternal. He craved wealth ... and power, not slaving on a farm. Wang had higher goals. His father said the Eternals were a myth. Wang knew they existed and would search for the truth, with the dream of a dragon to help him.Walking Through Walls is a fantasy chapter book based on an ancient Chinese tale, providing a magical adventure.

Connor and Otis, honor students at Pendrake Middle School, stumble into trouble while fishing from their old skiff on Peabody Pond. They attempt to aid Dr. Lambert, a geneticist, who crashed his car on a forest trail while fleeing his pursuers. During the doctor's violent abduction, a vial of an experimental hormone rolls down the hillside and shatters on the shore, unleashing horrific changes in the simple aquatic life. Situations deteriorate as the boys struggle to stay one step ahead of the thugs while waging battle with the monstrous mutants of Peabody Pond. They vow to solve the crime on their own, but piling secrets upon lies, they enlist some unlikely allies and open the doors to a summer vacation fraught with mischief, mystery, mayhem, and death - as well as far more adventure than either boy could have imagined.