While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something. ...

When Pete was a young boy, a tornado struck his family farm, and brought with it a doghouse complete with a dog inside! Now another twister is on its way, and as a new family of farmers takes shelter from the howling winds, Pete passes the time with story after story about the amazing dog named Tornado. ...

First book of a trilogy full of action, adventure, science and discovery. Matt, Emily and Jonathan use a time machine to return to the Titanic determined to prevent its sinking. Can they save the great ship, and more importantly, can they get back to the present time? ...

Yosemite National Park provides the setting for this dramatic story of 11-year-old Jan Kern, whose hot temper and rebellion at being a girl bring her rejection from the other girls and probation at school. Aided by her family, teachers, and friends, she matures, wins respect, and learns to like herself the way she is. ...

On her journey by car from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, 13-year-old Salamanca Hiddle tells the story of her friend Phoebe, who receives a message from a "lunatic" and who must cope with the disappearance of her mother. But beneath this story is Sal's own story, and that of her mother, who left home one day and never returned. ...

Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge. ...

A pygmy shrew is small; it's among the smallest of mammals. What could be smaller? A ladybug? A protozoa? Yes, there are smaller things than a pygmy shrew, and in this delightful book, Wells introduces readers to all of them--right down to the atoms and quarks! ...

Francis Tucket, Lottie, and Billy have survived many hair-raising adventures, joined together by their goal to find the family Francis lost when he was kidnapped from a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. And now they are also joined by a secret--the gold they discover in a Spanish grave. Includes an Epilogue that tells what happened to them on the Oregon frontier. ...

A new teen fantasy series begins with this story that sweeps readers into an epic adventure while probing truths of adolescence. Claidi is a 16-year-old orphan, forced to serve as a handmaiden to a cruel, royal family in the oppressive House. Outspoken and ready for romance, she becomes embroiled in a plot to rescue a handsome, intriguing prisoner. ...

When Abby is home sick with the flu, the teach says the class must participate in a science fair. Then she gives Abby--horrors!--a boy as a partner. ...