At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.

Relates the experiences of a young girl and her mother as they backpack in the desert where the child learns about the plants, animals, birds, and rock formations.

Immersed in studying his favorite topic, dinosaurs, Oliver involves his fifth grade class in a campaign to make the stegosaurus the Colorado state fossil and runs afoul of an interfering bully.

In pursuit of a reward for the discovery of an Indian burial site, Marc and two friends get lost in a cave inhabited by a ghost.

At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.

But not Stanleigh: Stanleigh, a raccoon who lives in a house, goes out one morning to explore the outside world, but by lunchtime is ready to come home. Stanleigh's pure pink day: "After a day when everything goes wrong, Stanleigh and his friend King, an Old English sheepdog, enjoy a perfect pure pink day"--Container. Stanleigh's wrong-side-out day: "After a day when nothing goes right for him, Stanleigh is relieved to know that his people still...