“Bad Bart was the biggest and the burliest pirate on this side of the Atlantic. But he wanted to be the biggest, burliest pirate in the world. And the richest….Mean Mo was the maddest, mightiest pirate this side of the Pacific. But am I the maddest, mightiest pirate in the world? She wondered. An...
Ben Watson is just arriving at his eighth foster home, which is his first experience with foster siblings. He unexpectedly bonds with one-year-old Grover G. Graham, to the point where he resents Grover's teen mother. This is more or less a slice-of-life story. It was pretty predictable, follow...
Nothing but a big mess of trouble and weeds..That's what Jackson Jones thinks of the garden plot his mother gives him for his tenth birthday. What happened to the basketball he's hoped and prayed for all year?When Jackson comes up with a moneymaking scheme for the garden, it doesn't seem so bad a...
Jackson Jones can't get away from roses. First his mother got him a plot at Rooter's, a community garden, where Jackson planted a rosebush of thorns and no blooms. Now Mr. K., a fellow gardener, enlists Jackson's help to rustle up some hardier, prettier, sweeter-smelling old-time roses. The kind ...
“You got something for me?” He eyeballed Reuben's panel. My man hunched low over the paper. Like a daddy bird protecting his child. “Leave him alone,” I said. Blood didn't even look at me. He reached out. Plucked the paper. “Look at the wittle fwower.” Blood's voice went all baby-squeaky. “And th...
Stumbled over a shrub. The figure whirled. I saw a face. Another flash of silver. Ro dropped his spoon and burst into tears. “What happened?” Juana and Gaby raced from the other side of the garden. Juana grabbed the little boy. “What's wrong, Ro? Who screamed?” Sobbing, Ro pointed at me. “I didn'...