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Willo Davis Roberts
After deaths of her parents, Teddi finds some stability when she moves in with Mamie, her good-hearted nextdoor neighbor–until the arrival of a woman claiming to be the pregnant wife…
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A three-time Edgar Award winner tells the story of 11-year-old Kaci, who interrupts burglars in the process of robbing her house, and is then kidnapped, along with her nosy elderly…
Fourteen-year-old Rebel has toned down her rebellious streak, but when faced with a challenge, she still feels the need to confront it head-on, despite the opinions of others.
In her final novel, Roberts tells the story of a young girl, still mourning the death of her twin sister, who meets two boys on the run from men who…
For use in schools and libraries only. A babysitter and her three willful charges make a formidable team to outwit their surprised kidnappers.
During a frightening trip spent in airplanes and airports between Seattle and San Francisco, eleven-year-old Gracie and her two cousins Charlie and Eddie get involved with sinister characters, identical flight…
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What they thought would be a dream vacation turns into a nightmare for twelve-year-old Lewis and his twin sister Alison, when they accompany their irresponsible new neighbors on a trip…
Buddy, whose real name is Amy Kate, has never been bothered by the nickname her father gave her–until she is forced to live with relatives she barely knows. But Buddy…
In this gripping novel about a boy’s journey into manhood, Marc has been running from pain and despair for two years. Now he’s running from the cops. As he runs…
No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive New York…
Every summer Cici and her family join other family and friends at Crystal Lake. This year she learns that Brody, her friend Jack’s older brother, has been convicted of murder…
When a falling body strikes Nick’s car as he drives under an overpass, the police call the man’s death a suicide, but Nick suspects murder and finds his life in…
From his favorite perch in a cherry tree, Rob sees a murder committed, but when he tells his preoccupied family, no one will believe him. Taut with suspense, this spell-binding…
A unique, much-needed resource guide for young diabetics. For young diabetics, it is bibliotherapy. For non-diabetics, it is informative about a silent, potentially life-threatening illness and its treatment .–School Library…
Originally published as: Absolutely true story of my visit to Yellowstone with the terrible Rupes.
A boy who does odd jobs in an apartment house becomes involved with a gang of arsonists employed by the building’s owner, who plans to destroy it in order to…
Living next door to a darkened amusement park, brothers Rick and Kenny become involved in a mystery that starts when their mother is kidnapped.
From three-time Edgar Award-winning author Willo Davis Roberts comes the instantly compelling (Kirkus Reviews) classic mystery, originally published as Buddy Is a Stupid Name for a Girl, about a young…
Nikki is having a hard time dealing with her mother’s death–and the fact she has a new stepmother only eight months later. Crystal is as uncomfortable around Nikki and her…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Megan Collier is shocked when her mother takes her and her brother, Sandy, to their grandfather’s isolated cottage in the middle of the night … (and is) further disturbed by…
A 10-year-old girl, who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that there are others like her.
Katie can make things move with her mind and understand what animals are thinking and one day, suspecting that there are three others with her powers, she runs away to…
After her mother’s death and her father’s suicide, fourteen-year-old Teddi finds some stability when she moves in with Mamie, her good-hearted nextdoor neighbor–until the arrival of a woman claiming to…
