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  • The Volcano Disaster

    Peg Kehret

    Paperback (Aladdin, Oct. 1, 1998)
    Working on a class project on Mount Saint Helens, Warren and Betsy are accidentally sent through time to the day of the volcano's eruption and must outrace a billowing cloud of volcanic ash. Reprint.
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  • Secret Journey

    Peg Kehret

    Paperback (Aladdin, Dec. 30, 2008)
    SWEPT AWAY. . .Twelve-year-old Emma Bolton is determined to join her father and her sick mother on their voyage to France. She'll do anything to escape Aunt Martha and hateful cousin Odolf! So she disguises herself as a boy and sneaks aboard a vessel she's told is her parents' ship. Too late, Emma discovers that she's a stowaway on Black Lightning, the most notorious slave ship afloat! Her only hope is to hide in plain sight as "William," ship's boy for the cruel Captain Isaac Bacon? until a violent storm causes a shipwreck, leaving her marooned on the raging seas off the coast of Africa, with only her wits to keep her alive. . .
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  • CAT BURGLAR ON THE PROWL

    Kehret

    Paperback (Aladdin, Jan. 1, 1995)
    Best friends Rosie and Kayo enter their cats in the local show--but someone steals Rosie's cat Webster and some super sleuthing is required. From the author of Nightmare Mountain and Terror at the Zoo. Simultaneous.
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  • The FLOOD DISASTER

    Peg Kehret

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Jan. 1, 1999)
    Covering the Johnstown Flood of 1889, Warren and Betsy interview an elderly survivor rather than use their time-travel device, but when they learn of the gentleman's devastating loss during the flood, they attempt to change history
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  • The Volcano Disaster

    Peg Kehret

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, March 1, 1998)
    Courtesy of his grandfather's latest crazy invention, the Instant Commuter, Warren Spalding winds up at the foot of the soon-to-erupt Mount Saint Helens in May of 1980, and tries desperately to contact his science partner, Betsy Miller.
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  • The Secret Journey

    Peg Kehret

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Dec. 1, 1999)
    After accidentally stowing away aboard a slave ship bound for Africa, twelve-year-old Emma is shipwrecked and left stranded on the African coast, where she survives with the help of chimpanzees and lizards.
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  • My Brother Made Me Do It

    Peg Kehret

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, April 1, 2000)
    Eleven-year-old Julie Welsh--who suffers from juvenile arthritis--shares her deepest secrets and feelings with her pen pal--eighty-nine-year-old Mrs. Kaplan who lives in Kansas.
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  • BONE BREATH AND THE VANDALS

    Kehret

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, March 1, 1995)
    It takes a dog to smell danger! Before Rosie could stop him, Bone Breath shot out from behind the car where she and Kayo hid and began barking at the vandals who were destroying the school statue. Recklessly, Rosie tried to rescue Bone Breath -- only to be caught by the vandals herself! They're big. They're bad. And they're determined to make sure she disappears. Rosie's running for her life -- hoping her best friend Kayo can bring help before it's too late!
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  • Face Your Fears

    Robert Campbell, Renee Gordon, Chris Meeks

    Paperback (Independently published, June 30, 2020)
    Brendan is a teenage bully who's looking forward to spending Halloween terrorizing the neighborhood kids. His mother informs him that he will be taking his sister trick-or-treating instead . Brendan tries to get out of his newfound responsibility, but it doesn't work. Brendan spends his Halloween night taking his sister the brat out to the local schools fall festival for prizes and fun. It's getting late but, Brendan wants to check out the old town's theater. Brendan with his sister Emma step into the old creepy worn down theater when they come face to face with the spirit of Halloween Samhain himself. Samhain threatens to turn them into ghouls unless Brendan can Face his Fears. Will Brendan the bully be victorious or will he and his sister become spirits of Halloween.
  • The Volcano Disaster

    Peg Kehret

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  • Bone Breath and the Vandals

    Peg Kehret

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Aug. 21, 2008)
    It takes a dog to smell danger!Before Rosie could stop him, Bone Breath shot out from behind the car where she and Kayo hid and began barking at the vandals who were destroying the school statue. Recklessly, Rosie tried to rescue Bone Breath -- only to be caught by the vandals herself! They're big. They're bad. And they're determined to make sure she disappears. Rosie's running for her life -- hoping her best friend Kayo can bring help before it's too late!
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  • The Flood Disaster

    Peg Kehret

    Paperback (Aladdin, Oct. 1, 1999)
    Covering the Johnstown Flood of 1889, Warren and Betsy interview an elderly survivor rather than use their time-travel device, but when they learn of the gentleman's devastating loss during the flood, they attempt to change history
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