Barbara M Joosse

In the dead middle of summer, the Scarface Detectives investigate their creepiest case yet when a mysterious client sends them to Oak Hill Cemetery, where Loonie Loraine is buried.

Mimi and her little brother Joe escape from home and the city's summer heat to read and dream about princesses and dinosaurs in the cool, quiet library.

Snowed in after sharing Christmas with Grandma, a houseful of relatives settles in for the night.

"Fox kits Lulu and her cousin Rocky visit Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, hiking, camping, star-gazing, and participating in the Junior Ranger program as they learn about the special treasures found in the park"--

With some help from his detective partner King Kyle in Cleveland, Wild Willie and his friend Lucy figure out how to turn their soccer team into winners.

Wally is a young boa constrictor who loves hugs, but his classmates at school are scared of getting hugs from him, so Wally shows them his friendly hugs are nothing to be afraid of.

Dinah wishes horrible things for her mother when the two have a fight.

Harris's family decides that his dog Zippy should go to dog obedience school, but after he is trained, they miss the old Zippy.

Two young sons on a fishing expedition with their mother; each boy is angling to be tops with Mom. Clearly an experienced peacemaker, Mama offers just the right answers when the boys inquire which of them, for example, is the best rower: "Why, Julian, you took the deepest strokes. And Max, your strokes were fastest." As she tucks them into bed that night, they each pose the ultimate question: "Who do you love best?" She loves one the "bluest," the...