Marty Shane, a powerful hitter and part owner of a major league baseball club, is determined to use his talents, not his connections, to play for a professional team
One winter day Warton, a toad, straps on his skis to visit an aunt who lives on the other side of the woods. But a hungry owl interrupts the tiny toad's journey and vows to eat Warton. Can Warton convince the owl to change his mind? "A small-scale Wind in the Willows."--School Library Journal, starred review.
Doing everything together, best friends Allie and Amy wonder how they will make it through the summer when Allie's parents decide to send her away to Camp Wogga-Bog. Reprint.
Tired of having all the animals around Sorry Bay come to him with their troubles, Hugh Pine, a very clever porcupine, seeks solitude on a small island in the bay populated by a solitary tree
In 1783, young Kevin Cartwright is kidnapped by the mysterious Captain Grey and his crew of pirates after they kill Kevin's father and sister. Reprint. SLJ. NYT.
Bertie thinks that other kids will like him if he loses weight and so he drinks a special remedy which causes weightlessness, but getting thin requires other measures
When her family moves from Chicago to the wilds of Wisconsin and Bits has trouble making new friends at school, she spends her time trying to tame a deer in the woods near her house