While lost in a maze of empty classrooms in his new school, Tommy Frazer begins to hear the voices of kids crying for help from behind the walls.

Cooper Holmes moves into a new house deep in the woods and is confronted with bone-chilling barking late at night and two evil-looking dogs who disappear into thin air.

Shan's quest to save Weldon Castle takes him as far as Camelot and into the court of the great King Arthur. Will Shan ever return to the courtyard of the mighty tree to reclaim his father's sword and his rightful place as heir of Weldon Castle?

In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis faces taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.

A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock.

Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. --Amazon.com

The essential facts of ten mysteries are presented, giving the reader the opportunity to solve the cases before examining the boy detective's solutions.

Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.

"Thirteen-year-old Arthur Curry has enough troubles to sink a ship. His mom left him and his dad when Arthur was only three years old. He doesn't fit in with the other students at school. To them, he's just "fish boy," a weird, freaky kid. But Arthur has a secret. Something so secret, even he doesn't know what it is. Yet ... With the help of his only friend, Claudia, Arthur will begin to learn the truth about his mother, himself, and a legendary world...

When a mysterious old man gives James some magical, tiny green things, he certainly never imagines that they will grow into an enormous peach.