Jane Louise Curry

As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.

Tee is happy to find that the ancient Egyptian box she inherits holds a spirit who will serve her, until she notices changes in her servant's appearance and behavior.

Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania.

JoEllen resents having to stay with Granty in her home, Winterbloom, while her mother is on her honeymoon, but after the discovery of the magic round window, allowing her to travel back in time, she begins a grand adventure of her own.

Recounts further adventures of Robin Hood, the English hero who lived as an outlaw with his followers in Sherwood Forest and dedicated his life to fighting tyranny.

Just after moving into their grandmother's house in Pittsburgh, the five Smith children must uncover a long-standing scam to steal the houses of old people before Grandma Smith loses her home. Sequel to "The Big Smith Snatch."

In 1842, eleven-year-old twins, whose father runs a boat on the Juniata Canal in Pennsylvania, learn of a Harrisburg bookseller's plan to steal Charles Dickens's newly finished novel while Dickens himself is touring the U.S.

Little Sister, a tiny girl who grows from an apple seed, helps her brother get home safely each time he strays on an errand in the wide world.

When their pregnant mother gets sick on the eve of their move from California to Pennsylvania, the four younger Smith children find themselves in the custody of the city leaving their twelve-year-old sister Boo, with the help of eccentric old Auntie Moss, to somehow trace their whereabouts and get the family back together again.

Wrongfully accused of stealing a valuable moonstone, Lek the conjuror determines to enter the dread Shadowland where the sun never shines and search for the long-sought Opal Mountains where he might find another stone with equally potent powers.

A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of the world from a variety of California Indian tribes.

Though two boys are paying attention to her, a seventeen-year-old in East Liverpool, Ohio, is painfully shy until she discovers in herself the eye, hand, and heart of a potter.

Gordy and his friends find secret rooms, mysterious burglaries, and a shadowy villain on the trail of a treasure supposedly lost in Johnstown's flood of 1889.

Searching for his missing lucky "dreamstone" and the answers to some mysteries surrounding it, Runner, one of the swiftest Tiddi scouts, ventures into the northern Icelands and the grim mountain fortress of Gzel.

Three children in an English village face danger as they try to track down the criminals responsible for burglaries in a strange old house.

When he goes to live with his cousin at the family's ancestral home, a ten-year-old boy finds a secret room and clues that could help unravel the riddle of the family treasure.

A group of children in a crowded school invent a girl who does not exist and find their prank played back at them in a most unexpected way.

Ten-year-old Rosemary thinks the word "Time" cut into a stone in her aunt's old herb garden should be spelled "Thyme" until she picks a sprig of the herb around it and discovers herself back in the eighteenth century.