Marly had been waiting a long time for this special momwnt. She sat alone in the car and stared at the lonely countryside and the small dilapidated house. It had to be the right place. All outdoors. With miracles. Not crowded and people being cross and mean. Daddy not tired all the time. Mothernot worried. She whispered, "Please let there be miracles."

The Borrowers, a family of miniature people, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. Sequel to """"The Borrowers Afield.""""

Emily Bartlett lives in an old farmhouse in Pitchfork, Oregon-at a time when automobiles are brand-new inventions and libraries are a luxury few small towns can afford. Her runaway imagination leads her to bleach a horse, hold a very scary sleepover, and feed the hogs an unusual treat. But can she use her lively mind to bring a library to Pitchfork.

Portia and her cousin Julian discover summer adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.

The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.

Orphaned Joanne is farmed out to live with an uncle and aunt on a sheep ranch in the Australian outback. Her live there is one of hardship and work. When she finds she is to be sent to another relative, she runs away.

Five youngsters camping in a ghost town in eastern Oregon have a busy vacation catching reptiles, looking for ghosts, and trying to prevent the sale of the town to resort developers.