When her father is lost at sea shortly after meeting a very unusual visitor, Alice must leave her home to live with an "uncle" whose rural Pennsylvania estate includes a massive and mysterious library that holds much more than books.

A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.

"A retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor-mechanic who finds her prince but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all"-- Nicolette's stepsisters call her 'Mechanica' to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother's knee. Pushed into a life of dreary servitude, she discovers a secret workshop in the cellar on her sixteenth birthday-- and befriends Jules, a tiny magical metal horse....

A collection of four separately published stories featuring Pedro, Katie Woo's classmate and friend.

"Maggie sees injustice and danger everywhere, and she does not like it one bit, so she devises intricate ways of controlling her own world, and a larger, more dangerous plan for protecting everyone else"--

Something is going on in the forest: one of the animals is saying nasty things about the other forest creatures. But no one dares make a statement to the police. Who is the culprit? Detective Gordon and his assistant Buffy must investigate!

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to make everything from a tower to a charitable donation, alone or with neighbors.

"Young naturalists meet sixteen birds in this elegant introduction to the many uses of feathers."--Amazon.com.

"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--

Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.