Martha Freeman

Four very different girls meet at Moonlight Ranch camp and decide to remain friends all year by exchanging letters and home-made cookies, using recipes their counselor's grandfather passed along.

When parts of outdoor Christmas displays go missing from neighborhood yards, nine-year-old Alex and his friend Yasmeen investigate.

After her first boyfriend cheats on her, sixteen-year-old Jane vows to never kiss another boy.

Sixth-grader Alex and his friend Yasmeen are on the case when ice sculptures go missing from the local First Night festivities.

"A collection of biographies of twenty groundbreaking women scientists who were curious kids and grew up to make incredible discoveries."--

When her prim and proper grandmother shows up with a boisterous new husband, ten-year-old Molly and her mother really dislike him, but after a series of confrontations, they learn to see both him and themselves in a new light.

"Strudel, a homeless dachshund, loves listening to Jake read from Chief, Dog of the Old West at the animal shelter. When Jake decides to adopt him, Strudel vows to be as brave and loyal as Chief. Readers get a dog's eye view as Strudel narrates this story of a dog who needed a family, and a struggling family who needed a dog"--

"In 1949 Philadephia, Mary Mouse and an orphan named Caro embark on an adventure when they team up to expose criminals and make the Cherry Street Orphanage a safe haven for mice."--Title page verso.

When a local businessman and baseball coach disappears just before he is to portray Uncle Sam at the start of a Memorial Day race, ten-year-old Alex and his best friend Yasmeen investigate, despite their pact to stay away from mysteries.

When nine-year-old Alex and his friend Yasmeen investigate the disappearance of cats in their neighborhood, they stumble onto a larger mystery involving a haunted house and a ghostly cat.

With the help of their rambunctious dog, Hooligan, seven-year-old Tessa and ten-year-old Cammie, daughters of the first female president, investigate when Dorothy's ruby slippers vanish while on loan to the White House.

Cue the lights for this nonstop farce that juxtaposes seven different plays-performed simultaneously-with a comic genius reminiscent of masters from Monty Python to the Marx Brothers. Combining spot-on parodies of Anton Chekhov, Agatha Christie, Tennesee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Neil Simon, and performance art, and throwing in scenes from Richard III for good measure, Zap flicks back and forth from play to play with the zap of a TV remote!

Dexter's well-ordered life is disrupted by his uneasy interactions with his spontaneous, even zany, fourth-grade teacher Mr. Ditzwinkle and by his mother's campaign for reelection to the town's school board.

Seven-year-old Tessa and ten-year-old Cammie, the first female president's daughters, investigate when a diamond goes missing from the collar of their very rambunctious dog.

After the girls of Flowerpot Cabin leave summer camp, they face challenges as Grace is volunteered to dogsit, Emma faces loss, Olivia's brother starts a family feud, and Lucy's father comes back into her life. Includes cookie recipes.

Twelve-year-old Kate has her entire world turned upside-down when she has to move from California to snowy Pennsylvania, where she tries to adjust to a new climate, a new school, and new friends. Kate is dealing with a lot. She has a super hot surfer boyfriend and a best friend named Molly. In the book Kate is trying to earn money to get a flight back to Cailfornia. After that she wishes everything was normal when she was still there. But when she gets there her boyfriend but now ex-boyfriend is going out with Molly. See what happens if you read this book. (by: Makayla E. age 13)

Nine-year-old Holly tries to adjust to a new home with a neighbor who has just invented a de-yukkification device.