Henry Winterfeld Books In Order

Detectives in Togas

In these two delightful history mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes…
thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure. Yes, Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on his tablet at school, but no, he did not break into the schoolroom, did not tie up his teacher, and certainly did not paint his slur about Caius on the Temple of Minerva even if it is in Rufus’s own handwriting. Rufus is doomed unless his six classmates can find out who is really responsible. Every hour seems to bring a new, confusing clue…
until the boys finally stumble upon someone who is not what he appears to be.

Mystery of the Roman Ransom

intro In these two delightful history mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes…
thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure.

It seems the boys can get nothing right: Their teacher’s fiftieth birthday is long past they should have done their math homework; the servant they bought as a present for his birthday isn’t just your run of the mill Gaul slave but a courier running for his life; and, to top it all off, the message he’s carrying requests the assassination of a Roman senator the father of one of the boys.

Star Girl

‘Mo falls from her father’s spaceship as it hovers low over the Earth, and a group of children finds her in the forest. She tells them her father will pick her up after nightfall in a certain forest glade, and the children decide to help her.’But their throubles start when none of the grown ups will believe Mo’s story. Mo runs away, the children after her, to spend a bewildering day learning about the funny and sometimes frightening ways of Earth’s inhabitants.

Castaways in Lilliput

When their life raft at last comes to ground, Jim, Peggy, and bossy Ralph rejoice. But this island is not like the world they left behind. The entire island is filled with miniature villages, roads, even cities with skyscrapers. The kids would love to play with the doll sized vehicles and houses…
until they discover that the tiny buildings have all too alive tiny people who live in them. It’s tough to be a little kid, especially when you’re not little the children only want some help and maybe some hot chocolate, but everyone views them as terrifying giants.

Trouble At Timpetill

The children in Timpetill are so rotten, ill behaved, and just all around unpleasant that one night all the grown ups in town leave for good. It falls to the kids to take care of themselves, and doing so is a lot harder than it looks. Not only must Thomas, Michael, and his friends figure out how to turn on the town’s water, run the electricity, and feed a population of whiny children but they have do all that while battling a gang of the very worst kids the ones who brought down this strange punishment in the first place.