Betsy Cromer Byars

Constantinos Coconis

A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

The Summer of the Swans

Tom dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.

The Midnight Fox

The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private investigator, solve a puzzling and frightening case.

A Herculeah Jones Mystery

The Dark Stairs

Thirteen-year-old Birch encourages her grandfather to fulfill his dream of flying his old Piper Cub plane from South Carolina to California and then informs him that she is coming along.

Coast to coast

The Midnight Fox (Faber Children's Classics)

Tarot Says Beware

When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for him and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.

Trouble River

Herculeah meets a murder mystery writer, and has the uneasy feeling that he knows more about murder than he should.

King of Murder

Herculeah Jones and her best friend Meat set out to crack the case of the mysterious note which she finds in the lining of a second-hand coat.

Dead Letter

Herculeah Jones gets involved in another dangerous mystery when she goes to visit old Mr. Shivers Hunt, resident of the forbidding Hunt House.

The Black Tower

Super-sleuth Herculeah Jones's investigation of the attempted murder of Meat's uncle leads them to a mystery bookstore named Death's Door.

Death's Door

Herculeah Jones stumbles onto the trail of her friend Meat's long-lost father while she and Meat are investigating the disappearance of a dead body from the men's room of a comedy club. Reissue.

Disappearing Acts

The students in Mr. Magro's class submit stories for the SOS file about their biggest emergencies, and then they read them aloud for extra credit. Sit back and enjoy twelve humorously illustrated stories that are sure to keep your heart thumping. Have you ever needed to call 9-1-1, but you couldn't get to a phone? Have you ever needed to run, but your legs were like spaghetti? Have you ever needed to yell "help!" but your throat was dry with fear? Laugh, cry, and panic with Mr. Magro's class as they listen to twelve exciting SOS tales.

The SOS File

With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers but somehow things just don't seem to be working right.

The Night Swimmers

The Pinballs

Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.

Syster Carlie

A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts.

The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown

Tony dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.

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