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Matt finds it easy to believe that his great-uncle will give him a horse; caring for it after it arrives proves to be the greater challenge.

While working with her family at Cosset Island Village, an historical replica for tourists of an early nineteenth-century village in New England, Clare helps two young runaways and learns about a mystery from the past.

While trying to prove he can survive on an island off the coast of Maine, Chris Fossett meets Joellen Roth, who has come to the island with her father to work on a puffin research project, and the two become caught up in a mystery surrounding the island's 150-year-old ghost.

While trying to deal with the possibility that her parents will separate, ten-year-old Zanna becomes involved in working with a spirited sheep dog that belongs to the stroke patient her mother is helping to rehabilitate.

Siri, her uncle, and the Furfolk make a perilous journey across the sea to deliver an ice bear to the king as ransom for his lifting the banishment which his grandfather had imposed upon the people of Starkland.

During the summer that Diane lives with a family as their babysitter, she works to establish rapport with the border collie Moss as everyone tries to cope with several crises.

It is 1892, and Jonathan Capewell, a farm boy who dreams of becoming a big-city detective, is sent from home to look after his mysterious grandfather. Grandpa is a traveling photographer, and his independent ways have never included family members - certainly not his youngest gra...

Ben, Kate, and Foster, the trio of friends from Starshine and Sunglow return in this satisfying sequel in which Ben finds a tiny creature in a ditch and is convinced he's stumbled upon something really big - really big. It looks exactly like a baby dinosaur, but how can Ben be su...

When The Ice Bear was published in 1986 to critical acclaim, Betty Levin whetted her fans, appetites for a captivatingly primitive land and a civilization at odds with its future. In this anticipated prequel, young Siri must play a critical role in order to free the exiled peop...

As they work together to learn about the creature that Ben had found and to help others like it to survive, Ben, Kate, and Foster also gain a sense of their own individual abilities.

Reluctantly, thirteen-year-old Duncan helps his neighbor, a widow recovering from a stroke, by hiding valuable antiques and art objects her husband had collected, but disaster strikes and the secrets he has been asked to keep may mean big trouble for Duncan.