Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he locates stolen jewels, retrieves a stuffed tiger, and more. Solutions are included at the back of the book.

An introduction to six-year-old Melvin Bubble as presented by his family, friends, and others.

Not all dogs are the playful pets we pamper; meet the WILD dogs. Wild dogs have fascinated mankind for thousands of years. Each species has its own tale--from being worshipped to being feared as a ravaging monster. What is fiction and what is fact about these furry animals?

Learn about the balls used in basketball, soccer, football, tennis, handball, golf, volleyball, and ping pong: how they're made, why they look the way they do, some amazing facts about their history...and a bit about the games that use them, too.

In his latest case, young Jeffrey Bones tries to discover the whereabouts of his grandfather's missing birthday present.

A social history of the American colonial period with a focus on the daily lives of women, including European immigrants, Native Americans, and slaves.

A book about a book, a magical red book, without any words, and the friendship that develops around it. Crosses oceans and continents to deliver one girl into a new world of possibility where a friend is waiting.

Although he enjoys some aspects of his retirement, eight-year-old Brian gains a new perspective on his job of being a child after spending time in Florida's Happy Sunset Retirement Community.

Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you...

An anthology of very short, scary stories by an assortment of authors and illustrators including Chris Raschka, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, and Lane Smith.