Jan Fields

Faith Newberry is setting in nicely at her job as librarian at the upscale and pet-friendly Castleton Manor library retreat. Even her cat, Watson, has taken to his new life in Lighthouse Bay on Cape Cod. With a cozy cottage on the grounds of the Massachusetts estate to live, and surrounded by books by day and friends by night, Faith thinks life couldn't get much sweeter. When celebrity pastry chef Sugar Worthington takes up residence at the manor, trailing a television camera crew and an entourage of adoring fans, Faith rises to the challenge of organizing a book signing for the baking diva. But things turn sour when attempts are made on Sugar's life, and Faith soon finds herself in a sticky situation.

Bitter Words

Stranger in the Looking Glass

When six ordinary girls accidentally open a secret door into another world, it doesn't take long for adventure, and danger, to find them.

Wellspring of magic

"Life is an adventure for archaeologist Scarlett McCormick, and she faces her biggest adventure yet when she’s offered the position of head curator at the world-renowned Reed Museum of Art and Archaeology. Scarlett and her faithful feline companion, Cleo, leave the past behind as they escape the hustle and bustle of New York City and move to the quaint seaside village of Crescent Harbor, California. As Scarlett settles into her new surroundings, she prepares for an upcoming exhibit at the museum. But she makes a horrifying discovery when an ancient Egyptian coffin arrives. The mummy is missing, and in its place is the dead body of Scarlett’s boss, Devon Reed. The murder of the reclusive billionaire shocks the entire community. A cryptic note written in hieroglyphics is the only clue, and Scarlett enlists security expert Winnie Varma and FBI agent Luke Anderson to help unravel the mystery. While Scarlett and her friends investigate, they encounter terrifying threats and deadly secrets. Will they find the killer before someone else becomes history?" --Publisher's website.

Mummy's the Word

Kate Stevens, a highly successful crochet designer living in Sage Hills, Texas is planning to celebrate the season for the first time away from her daughter, Venessa. The melancholy of that reality is tempered, however, when Alice MacFarlane and Jim Parker, old friends from Kate's hometown of Stony Point. Maine, show up. Alice needs a signature from her no-good ex-husband John, a man she divorced many years ago, before she and Jim can tie the knot. When John's body is discovered in a nearby lake, Jim's idle threat becomes all too real.

Unraveled Tidings

In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, two eighth graders and unlikely allies open a door to a parallel universe where they don’t exist and must work together to return to their homes and the people who love them.

The Door

Elizabeth is tired of being mistreated in her orphanage, so she runs away and hides in a ship's cargo hold. But when the ship sets sail, two crewmen discover her during a storm. They think she's a jinx! What will become of Elizabeth now? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Book 1: The Jinx

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Presents an adaptation of the classic story of the ten-year-old orphan who goes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors, where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

The Secret Garden

Meri knows best friends forever don't always last, but why did her ex-best turn into the meanest girl in school? With help from one of the spunkiest girls in children's literature, Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables, Meri works to unravel the mystery of best friend turned worst bully. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Facing a Frenemy

In the twelfth volume of the cozy mystery series, Annie Dawson and her friends from the Hook and Needle Club are going to be extras in a made-for-TV Christmas movie being filmed in Stony Point, Maine. Annie pulls a small leather-bound suitcase from the attic at Grey Gables to donate as a prop. Her prop is nearly stolen in a mugging, after which her best friend is kidnapped, setting the stage for adventure and intrigue.

The Valise in the Attic

Annie Dawson and her friends in the Hook and Needle club are preparing for the social event of the year, a masquerade ball hosted by the Stony Point Historical Society. Searching the expansive attic of Grey Gables to find gowns and accessories for the ball, they discover an antique set of faux-emerald jewelry. The set is the perfect complement to Annie's own gown, but little does she know where the discovery will lead her and her friends.

Emeralds in the attic

The members of the Hook and Needle Club have made many exciting and adventurous road trips together through the years, but the opportunity to travel to Texas for a needlecraft convention is more than Annie Dawson and her friends can pass up. For Annie, it's a trip back to her old stomping grounds from her days when she and her late husband, Wayne, ran an automobile dealership. It's been more than three years since Wayne's death and since Annie moved to Stony Point, Maine, to take possession of Grey Gables, her late grandmother's old Victorian home. Now Annie returns to Texas, as Betsy is being honored at the convention for her groundbreaking work as a needlecrafter, and many of her works will be on display at a special exhibit. Accompanying Annie are three of her Hook and Needle Club friends: Mary Beth Brock, Kate Stevens, and Stella Brickson. Everything is going swimmingly until a death in Betsy's exhibit throws a pall on the road trip, and doubly so when Annie and her friends become part of the short list of suspects. In her first mystery away from the friendly confines of Grey Gables and Stony Point, Annie is drawn into the unseemly incident, and she lends her considerable talent in solving riddles to the handsome police detective assigned to the case.--From the publisher.

Road Trip!

Alice MacFarlane has once again let her adventurous spirit take her into harm's way, and it's up to Annie Dawson to find Alice and pull her out of the dangerous situation. It seems like it was always that way. Back when Annie and Alice were teenagers, Alice seemed to always be getting into one scrape or another. That was when Annie was visiting Stony Point, Maine, and staying with her grandparents, Charlie and Betsy Holden, in their stately Victorian home, Grey Gables. In those innocent days, Alice was the one with the crazy schemes, and Annie was the one who had to judge whether or not the schemes were just too crazy. But those innocent days didn't leave Alice missing for days. The mystery begins when Annie finds a book in her grandfather's collection in the attic of Grey Gardens. Written in 1925, the history of the Fuller family includes the story of a mysterious island in South Carolina wrapped up in an ancient curse. When Alice's friend, Jim Parker -- an author and photographer -- makes a surprise visit to Stony Point, Annie suggests that Fuller's Island might make an interesting chapter in his latest book. Annie, Alice and Jim all laugh off the book's assertion that the island is haunted by ghost dogs after the curse was placed on it by a witch in the 19th century. But it ceases to be fun and games when Alice and Jim go missing after visiting the island. Now it's up to Annie, Ian Butler -- Stony Point's mayor -- and the members of the Hook and Needle Club to save Alice when one of her carefree adventure once again goes awry.

The Legend of Fuller's Island

The Cats and the Riddle

The residents of Stony Point, Maine, are getting restless over a string of break-ins that have been plaguing the community. The burglars have hit some of the most upscale residences in Stony Point, and they seem to know just when their owners are out of town. Annie Dawson and her best friend, Alice MacFarlane, have solved many mysteries that have originated in the attic of Annie's Victorian-era home, Grey Gables, but this one has no connection to the attic. It has Annie, Alice, and the local police stymied. The common thread running through the series of crimes is a connection to a new pet kennel. If the break-ins aren't solved soon, it could ruin the business. For all that Annie and Alice know, maybe the owners are the crooks -- and their business should be ruined. When the home of Ian Butler, the dynamic mayor of the town, and Annie's beau, is hit, Annie decides that the criminals have to be dealt with once and for all. Ian and Jim Parker, Alice's on-again, off-again boyfriend, team up with Annie and Alice to go undercover and smoke the thieves out.

The Kennel Caper

Gabe Brown's brother Ben has his own show on the Internet called Discover Cryptids. Gabe and his friends Tyler and Sean help Ben hunt down these monsters and make sure the show goes on! For this episode, the Monster Hunters travel to Arizona to investigate the Mogollon Monster for their Discover Cryptids Internet show. The monster is terrorizing a summer camp. Is a camper playing a practical joke? Maybe, but the team isn't so sure! Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Seek the Mogollon Monster

Carter Lewis's Uncle Dan has invented a suit that creates a virtual reality world so that the person experiences and interacts with a book as if he were actually there--but when Carter and his cousin Isabelle put on the suits they discover that a hacker is playing games with them.

A Trip to Wonderland

Hack Attack

Hunt the Ozark Howler

Until now Uncle Dan has only used classic books in his program, so being commissioned to turn a new manuscript into a virtual reality world sounds exciting--but while they are testing the program, Isabelle realizes that the book is plagiarized from The purloined letter, and it is up to Carter to teach the author a lesson.

The Purloined Story

A Novel Nightmare

The boys try to figure out why a ghost is messing up all the dance rehearsals.

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