This book is really good.it is about this little girl called Megan that loves adventure. One day, her mom wants them to move house, and live with her grandpa, even though school break hasn't started yet. But Megan and her little brother thinks that she is running away from something, they are not...
For better or worse, I found myself thinking of The View from the Cherry Tree as sort of what-if-Ralphie-of-A-Christmas-Story-witnessed-a-murder? story. (The novel substantially predates the film, of course, but post-dates the Jean Shepherd novel from which the film drew, so maybe the association...
Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job is a great suspenseful story about 14 year old or 13 1/2 baby sitter named Darcy who wanted a babysitting job and ended up baby sitting the Foster kids who were named, Jeremy, Melissa and Shana. After the second day of sitting they all end up getting kidnapped by t...
"When cousins Gracie and Eddie are invited to fly to San Francisco to visit their Aunt Molly, Gracie's mother decides they may go, musing 'What could go wrong?' If only she had known about the man in the Hawaiian shirt carrying a newspaper with a mysterious code on it. Or about the bomb threat . ...
Nick is excited about the prospect of earning money by working as a pet-sitter for the residents of Hillsdale Apartments. After all, what could be easier than feeding cats and walking dogs? But Nick isn't prepared for a strong-willed Airedale twice his size or a spitting, sharp-clawed cat named E...
Mom was calling down from upstairs, wanting to know what was going on, and I turned long enough to reply, “Jeff and Dad are over at the Andersons’, and the police are here!” before I ran outside in my bare feet. An officer unfolded himself from the front seat of the patrol car and turned to look ...
Harry and I were in my backyard, eating cherries off our tree and seeing who could spit the pits the farthest. “There it is!” Harry shouted, and we scrambled down out of the tree and raced for his driveway. The driver was handing over the keys to Mrs. Rupe. “You have any e...
There was a squeal of brakes, and the cab dodged the car, clipping its left front fender with a shriek of metal before it tore away. Pink and I had taken a dive toward the curb, falling between a parked car and the red Camaro. We were lucky not to get squashed between the Camaro and the car behin...
“Kenny! Come here and just act natural, like you’re playing,” Connie said. Kenny looked uncertainly after us, in through the door of the laundry room. “What’s going on?” he asked, which for him was acting natural, I guess. “Kenny,” I finally managed to get out in a fairly firm tone, “this is impo...
It had done no good to protest that surely her brother and her father would be coming soon to pick her up, that it was pointless to enroll in a new school for just a few days. It hadn’t helped to remind Cassie that no one had gotten to bed until late last night, and that what sleep they’d had had...