Carol Ryrie Brink

Children come from far and near to taste Goody O'Grumpity's wonderful spice cake.

Irma's lie about having the biggest doll in the world leads her into deeper and deeper trouble.

In 1908 in Idaho fifteen-year-old Louly, left in charge during her parent's absence, has an adventurous summer with her brother, sister, and her two girlfriends.

When Kirby, Bitsy, and their parents inherit an unusual and very pink motel in Florida, they find it filled with eccentric characters, mystery, and adventure.

Caddie Woodlawn is a children's historical fiction novel by Carol Ryrie Brink which received the Newbery Medal in 1936 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The original 1935 edition was illustrated by Newbery-award-winning author and illustrator Kate Seredy. Macmillan released a later edition in 1973, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.

A Christmas package with two miniature dolls reminds an old lady of the year she and her best friend were thirteen and writing a "romantical" novel.

A Depression family appropriates a summer cottage in the Wisconsin woods, where they spend the winter and welcome all visitors, including a runaway youth and two strangers

"Fantasy with a robot twist ..."

Minneapolis and St. Paul - past and present.

Mrs Ridgeway has sold her book and Mr Ridgeway has a sabbatical from teaching history at the university – so of course they have brought Susan (13), George (11) and Dumpling (7) to France for a year. Or, until the money runs out. As far as the desperately homesick Dumpling is concerned, the money can’t run out too fast, especially after she drops her cherished doll Irene down a oubliette. Susan and George are quite happy living in a decrepit old hotel in Cannes with high ceilings, an enormous bathtub, and an over-run garden, at least until their parents hire Mlle Beauregard to be their governess. It’s unfortunate for the mademoiselle that she learns far more Midwest American slang than the children do French. This is even more unfortunate for the children, because from Cannes the Ridgeways go on to Paris, where Mr Ridgeway can do his research, and the three Ridgeway children are put in a French school (and in the very bottom class with the five year olds). As the year passes, and the Ridgeways find ways to create a little bit of of American Halloween and Christmas, even Dumpling begins to be at peace with living in such a strange place, so far from home

Young Willie helps Professor Petit and his dogs find jobs after they are upstaged by a circus with a tiger, and they all help the circus animals after the owner proves himself a cruel fraud.

Tommy Tucker is a football hero-- who also happens to mow the Ridgeways' lawn.

Fourteen tales relating the further adventures of ten-year-old Caddie and her six siblings living on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's.

"Three doctors travel to Opportunity, Idaho in the 1890s searching for success and fortune in a town where they find more tragedies than opportunities."

The congregation gets rather upset when the minister's two sons and a neighbor girl start playing pranks.