Idaville's boy detective applies concepts from history, science, and the study of human behavior to the known facts in ten perplexing cases.

A ten-year-old boy opens a private detective agency and works on ten cases, challenging readers to find the solutions themselves.

A new title in the bestselling series about the world's greatest supersleuth in sneakers! A slippery salamander, a banana burglar, a judge who's run away, and a presidential toothbrush . . . these are just some of the clues that the world's greatest young detective must use to solve 10 all-new mysteries. Young readers can try to solve the cases alongside Encyclopedia--the answers to all the mysteries are in the back of the book.

Everyone's favorite kid sleuth is back to solve ten new confounding cases! Encyclopedia Brown returns, and with his uncanny knack for trivia, he helps solve mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his detective agency. But his dad is also the chief of the police department, and every night Encyclopedia Brown helps him solve his most puzzling crimes. Join Encyclopedia Brown here as he solves ten new and mysterious conundrums, including a case of stolen medallions, the secret of an old diary, a case of a shipwreck, and many more. And with the clues given in each case, readers can solve these mysteries too!

Ten exciting new adventures for the famous boy detective! Everyone's favorite fifth-grade gumshoe is back on the case! Following the classic Encyclopedia Brown formula, this installment presents ten mysteries, complete with answers at the end of the book that allow the reader to solve the cases along with the boy detective. Join Encyclopedia Brown as he takes on cases of giant diamonds, lazy lions, a country singer, and of course a trip to the carnival.

Working with reluctant readers in grades 2-5 is especially important because it is in these early years that an appreciation of books and reading can be cultivated and nurtured. Fredericks presents guidelines for motivating and encouraging responsibility and comprehension in these children. The book contains more than 40 book units on titles selected to motivate the most reluctant reader, such as The Beast in Miss Rooney's Room, The Bathwater Gang, Much Ado about Aldo and Eating Ice Cream with a Werewolf.

A collection of anecdotes chronicling some unusual events and activities involving a variety of wild and domestic animals.

A collection of humorous anecdotes, most of which are true, about outdoor life, with an emphasis on fishing and hunting.

Profiles 800 of the major authors and illustrators of children's and young adult books

Provides timely and informative profiles of the world's most interesting people.

The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.

To cover the immense publishing explosion of children's books, films, and other media for the 1980s, Mary Ann Pauline has created an encyclopedic set of volumes to complement and update her celebrated book, Creative Uses of Children's Literature.

When a neighborhood dog is injured mysteriously, T. F. Benson and his partner, Sara, investigate, suspecting that the dog may have been a witness to a robbery. Original.

Family pressures start weighing on Jeanine, and when she suddenly becomes the prime suspect in a series of locker thefts at school, she needs her friends' help to clear her name.

The discovery of letters written over one hundred years ago is the first in a series of coincidences that draws twelve-year-old Sarah into the unsettled events of her great-great-great-aunt's life.

Dee Forest joins forces with her best friend, a nineteenth-century ghost named Louisa Lockwood, to investigate the mystery of the ghost ferry and to stop a ring of lobster poachers.

Nine-year-old playwright Annie K. gathers all her friends to put on a Halloween play called "The Ghost Show" for the neighborhood, in a story accompanied by a play for readers to perform and tips on costumes and props.

When gorgeous, conceited Taffy Sinclair wins a part on a television soap opera, eleven-year-old Jana's jealousy skyrockets until she begins to mix television fantasy with real life.