The crime solving skills of the Brown Detective Agency's fifth-grade president are displayed in a collection of short stories.

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.

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.

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.

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

Want to identify fiction books that boys in grades three through nine will find irresistible? This guide reveals dozens of worthwhile recommendations in categories ranging from adventure stories and sports novels to horror, humorous, and science fiction books.

Provides a list of 7,500 titles, including caption books, series books, and natural language texts, for children in kindergarten through grade three.

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.

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.

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

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.