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"It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of th...

"Helen Turner is a young and beautiful woman, married to a much older man. One spring morning she walks out to her mailbox. The letter in her hand is addressed to a stranger, a bush pilot. She slips the letter into the box, and raises the red flag. What Helen doesn't know is ...

Should Hank report the murder he has just witnessed? If he does, will the Mafia kill him, too? Dawn is still a few cold hours away. Hank must keep moving to stay warm. He paces back and forth along the sidewalk. Fear squeezes his chest. What to do? If only he were safely back in ...

It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of surprises. Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and is holed up in the basement. And Ferris' grandmother Charisse is seeing a ghost at the threshold of...

Nathan and Pozzi are in trouble. They have stolen something sacred. The spirits are angry, and so is the sea. In a few minutes they could be swept overboard. The waves are growing ever higher. Alice is busy bailing water over the side. Her long dark hair whips across her fa...

Thirteen-year-old Kate Ferris already has one problem. Snooty, well-to-do Melissa is boarding her horse at Kate's family stable. When Melissa suddenly turns nice, Kate is shocked ... and suspicious. The last thing she needs is more trouble. So when a hooded rider appears - and t...

"Thirteen-year-old Kate Ferris comes up with the perfect way to raise money for her autistic younger brother and others to attend summer camp--a horse scavenger hunt! As local businesses donate money and prizes, Kate keeps the entry fees in her mom's antique jewelry box. But when...

Every dark cloud has a silver-lining -- and young POLLYANNA knows how to find it! After the death of her father, Pollyanna moves in with her downcast, embittered aunt. Soon, Pollyanna charms everyone in the beautiful English village she now calls home -- except her cold-hearted...

Sure, winning the lottery allows Zoe Ferris to quit her job as a cutthroat corporate attorney but no amount of cash will clear her conscience about the way her firm treated the O'Leary family in a wrongful death case. So she sets out to make things right only to find gruff, griev...

There's a place where the ocean meets the shore, where kicking off your shoes and baring some skin is as natural as sneaking under the boardwalk for an ice cream cone and stolen kisses. But life isn't all a beach for Shaye Cates, even if her idea of an office is a shady umbrell...

In "this enchanting story about friendship," two fourth grade girls discover a magical world hidden in one's backyard ( Publishers Weekly ). No fourth grader trusts Sara-Kate Connolly. Her boots are dirty, her clothes are weird, and she's so maladjusted that the school had to ...

Hillary doesn't believe all the mean things she hears about Sara-Kate. Sure, she wears weird clothes and she lives in a dumpy house, but if Sara-Kate's as bad as everyone says, how could she take such good care of the elf village in her backyard? She and Hillary spend hours fixin...