Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Books In Order

Alice McKinley Books In Publication Order

  1. The Agony of Alice (1985)
  2. Alice in Rapture, Sort of (1989)
  3. Reluctantly Alice (1991)
  4. All But Alice (1992)
  5. Alice in April (1993)
  6. Alice In-Between (1994)
  7. Alice the Brave (1995)
  8. Alice in Lace (1996)
  9. Outrageously Alice (1997)
  10. Achingly Alice (1998)
  11. Alice on the Outside (1999)
  12. The Grooming of Alice (2000)
  13. Alice Alone (2001)
  14. Simply Alice (2002)
  15. Patiently Alice (2003)
  16. Including Alice (2004)
  17. Alice on Her Way (2005)
  18. Alice in the Know (2006)
  19. Dangerously Alice (2007)
  20. Almost Alice (2008)
  21. Intensely Alice (2009)
  22. Alice in Charge (2010)
  23. Incredibly Alice (2011)
  24. Alice on Board (2012)
  25. Now I’ll Tell You Everything (2013)

Alice Prequel Books In Publication Order

  1. Starting with Alice (2002)
  2. Alice in Blunderland (2003)
  3. Lovingly Alice (2004)

Bessledorf Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. Bernie Magruder and the Case of the Big Stink (1983)
  2. The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel (1986)
  3. Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel (1990)
  4. The Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor (1993)
  5. Bernie Magruder and the Bus Station Blow Up (1996)
  6. Bernie Magruder and the Pirate’s Treasure (1998)
  7. Bernie Magruder and the Parachute Peril (2000)
  8. Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry (2003)

Boy/Girl Battle Books In Publication Order

  1. The Boys Start the War (1993)
  2. The Girls Get Even (1993)
  3. Boys Against Girls (1993)
  4. The Girls’ Revenge (1994)
  5. A Traitor Among the Boys (1999)
  6. A Spy Among the Girls (2000)
  7. The Boys Return (2001)
  8. The Girls Take Over (2002)
  9. Boys in Control (2003)
  10. Girls Rule! (2004)
  11. Boys Rock! (2005)
  12. Who Won the War? (2006)

Cat Pack Books In Publication Order

  1. The Grand Escape (1993)
  2. The Healing of Texas Jake (1997)
  3. Carlotta’s Kittens (2000)
  4. Polo’s Mother (2005)

Emily Books In Publication Order

  1. Emily’s Fortune (2010)
  2. Emily and Jackson Hiding Out (2012)

Roxie and the Hooligans Books In Publication Order

  1. Roxie and the Hooligans (2006)
  2. Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard’s Roost (2018)

Shiloh Books In Publication Order

  1. Shiloh (1991)
  2. Shiloh Season (1996)
  3. Saving Shiloh (1997)
  4. A Shiloh Christmas (2015)

Simply Sarah Books In Publication Order

  1. Anyone Can Eat Squid! (2005)
  2. Cuckoo Feathers (2006)
  3. Patches and Scratches (2007)
  4. Eating Enchiladas (2008)

Witch Saga Books In Publication Order

  1. Witch’s Sister (1975)
  2. Witch Water (1977)
  3. The Witch Herself (1978)
  4. The Witch’s Eye (1990)
  5. Witch Weed (1990)
  6. The Witch Returns (1992)

York Books In Publication Order

  1. Shadows on the Wall (1980)
  2. Footprints at the Window (1981)
  3. Faces in the Water (1981)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. To Make a Wee Moon (1969)
  2. Making It Happen (1970)
  3. Wrestle the Mountain (1971)
  4. No Easy Circle (1972)
  5. To Walk the Sky Path (1973)
  6. Walking Through the Dark (1976)
  7. Revelations (1979)
  8. How Lazy Can You Get? (1979)
  9. Eddie, incorporated (1980)
  10. All Because I’m Older (1981)
  11. The Boy with the Helium Head (1982)
  12. A String of Chances (1982)
  13. The Solomon System (1983)
  14. Night Cry (1984)
  15. Old Sadie and the Christmas Bear (1984)
  16. The Dark of the Tunnel (1985)
  17. The Keeper (1986)
  18. Unexpected Pleasures (1986)
  19. The Baby, the Bed, and the Rose (1987)
  20. The Year of the Gopher (1987)
  21. One of the Third Grade Thonkers (1988)
  22. Maudie in the Middle (1988)
  23. Keeping a Christmas Secret (1989)
  24. Beetles, Lightly Toasted (1989)
  25. Send No Blessings (1990)
  26. King of the Playground (1991)
  27. Josie’s Troubles (1992)
  28. Jennifer Jean, the Cross-Eyed Queen (1994)
  29. The Fear Place (1994)
  30. Ice (1995)
  31. Being Danny’s Dog (1995)
  32. I Can’t Take You Anywhere! (1997)
  33. Ducks Disappearing (1997)
  34. Sang Spell (1998)
  35. Danny’s Desert Rats (1998)
  36. Walker’s Crossing (1999)
  37. Sweet Strawberries (1999)
  38. Jade Green (2000)
  39. The Great Chicken Debacle (2001)
  40. Please DO Feed the Bears (2002)
  41. Blizzard’s Wake (2002)
  42. After (2003)
  43. Cricket Man (2008)
  44. Faith, Hope, and Ivy June (2009)
  45. Zack and the Turkey Attack (2017)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Change in the Wind (1980)
  2. Never Born a Hero (1982)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. A Triangle Has Four Sides (1984)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. How to Find Your Wonderful Someone (1971)
  2. An Amish Family (1974)
  3. Getting Along in Your Family (1976)
  4. Crazy love (1977)
  5. In Small Doses (1979)
  6. Getting Along with Your Friends (1980)
  7. Getting Along with Your Teachers (1981)
  8. Phyllis Naylor Interview with Kay Bonetti (1987)
  9. The Craft of Writing the Novel (1989)
  10. How I Came to Be a Writer (2008)

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Shiloh Book Covers

Simply Sarah Book Covers

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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Books Overview

The Agony of Alice

Life, Alice McKinley feels, is just one big embarrassment. Here she is, about to be a teenager and she doesn’t know how. It’s worse for her than for anyone else, she believes, because she has no role model. Her mother has been dead for years. Help and advice can only come from her father, manager of a music store, and her nineteen year old brother, who is a slob. What do they know about being a teen age girl?

What she needs, Alice decides, is a gorgeous woman who does everything right, as a roadmap, so to speak. If only she finds herself, when school begins, in the classroom of the beautiful sixth grade teacher, Miss Cole, her troubles will be over. Unfortunately, she draws the homely, pear shaped Mrs. Plotkin. One of Mrs. Plotkin’s first assignments is for each member of the class to keep a journal of their thoughts and feelings. Alice calls hers ‘The Agony of Alice,’ and in it she records all the embarrassing things that happen to her.

Through the school year, Alice has lots to record. She also comes to know the lovely Miss Cole, as well as Mrs. Plotkin. And she meets an aunt and a female cousin whom she has not really known before. Out of all this, to her amazement, comes a role model one that she would never have accepted before she made a few very important discoveries on her own, things no roadmap could have shown her. Alice moves on, ready to be a wise teenager.

Alice in Rapture, Sort of

‘The Summer of the First Boyfriend,’ Alice’s father calls it. It is also the summer between grade school and junior high. Alice’s friends keep telling her what she has to do to be a successful seventh grader. She may need a leather skirt. Alice knows she’ll never have one. And certainly she’ll need that boyfriend. In fact, one of Alice’s friends has heard that a girl will never have any kind of social life in high school if she doesn’t have a boyfriend when she enters junior high. That makes Alice very glad she has Patrick. And glad when her friends Elizabeth and Pamela have boyfriends, too. It is going to be a good summer, she thinks. And, in this sequel to The Agony of Alice, it is a good summer. There are ball games in the park, bike riding, sitting on the front porch with Patrick and talking and sometimes eating chocolates and sometimes kissing. But there are problems, too. How do you make yourself beautiful when you are not? How do you cope with an older brother who has no tact and no understanding of your problems? And most of all, how do you act with a boyfriend? Some of the things she hears make Alice think she needs a manual of instructions. Through triumphs and disasters at the beach, through the trauma of dinner at the country club with Patrick, through moments of terrible embarrassment and discouraging attempts to sort out what having a boyfriend is all about, and through surprising thoughts and decisions, Alice persists in being Alice, a girl who wants to be like other people but who can’t stop being herself. Her problems are fun and funny, and readers will find a lot of themselves and their own problems in Alice and her friends.

Reluctantly Alice

After her first day in junior high, Alice McKinley says, ‘I can think of at least seven things about seventh grade that stink.’ But after a week, Alice has decided that maybe junior high isn’t so bad. In fact, maybe she can go a whole year being friends with everyone, teachers and students alike. This is before she has her first run in with Denise ‘Mack Truck’ Whitlock. Alice, who has survived sixth grade and The Summer of the First Boyfriend, soon discovers that it isn’t so easy to be Alice the Likeable. Even her best friends get in the way sometimes. And just when she is sure no one has more problems than she does, she is drawn into the ones her twenty year old brother and her widowed father are facing, which seem worse. Thinking a favorite teacher may hold the answer to at least one difficulty, Alice ends up with a bigger mess than ever. She realizes, however, that it is possible to overcome disaster and to find a way out of troubles. Most of all, she discovers, it’s good to have a father and a brother who love you and look out for you. In fact, sometimes, having family is almost enough.

All But Alice

There are, Alice decides, 272 horrible things left to happen to her in her life, based on the number of really horrible things that have happened already. She figures that out after the disaster of the talent show. And she realizes that there is no way to fend them off.

But, she reasons, if you don’t have a mother, maybe a sister would help. Maybe lots of sisters, a worldwide sisterhood. Be like everyone else, do what others do, and best of all, be part of the ‘in’ group. Then you have sympathy and protection.

It is with this in mind that Alice joins the All Stars Fan Club and the earring club and becomes one of the Famous Eight. It helps, even when it’s a bit boring. On the whole, Alice thinks, she is enjoying seventh grade more than she had ever expected.

Yet Sisterhood, even Famous Eighthood, does not take care of all of her problems or answer all of her questions about life and love. Can she be Sisters with all three girls who want to be her brother Lester’s girlfriends? How does she treat the fact that her father is dating her teacher, Miss Summers? How do you accept a box of valentine candy from a boy? In fact, how do boys fit into Universal Sisterhood or is there a Universal Humanhood? How far do you go when being part of the crowd means doing something you don’t want to do?

As in the earlier Alice books, Alice copes with life in her own way, and her answers to her endless problems are often funny and surprisingly right.

Alice in April

April is the cruelest month,’ said the poet, and Alice McKinley would agree. April is a hard month. Not that she doesn’t have some fun. It does begin with a wonderful April Fool’s Day joke on her brother, Lester. But it also begins with Aunt Sally reminding her that she will soon be thirteen as if anyone could forget something so important and then she will be Woman of the House, since her mother is long dead. It is an awesome responsibility. All her life she had assumed that her father and Lester were there to take care of her; now she is going to have to take care of them. Taking care of Lester, alone, could be a full time job, she thinks. Being Woman of the House has all sorts of drawbacks. For example: It never occurred to her that when she suggested her father and Lester ought to have physical checkups, her father would insist that she have one too. How could you let a doctor see you naked?

Of course, Alice is still in school. And there she faces another crisis. She might be Woman of the House at home, but in school she needs a different kind of name, one given by a table full of boys in the cafeteria Depending on their figures, girls are being given state names some states have mountains and others do not. Will flat, flat Delaware or Louisiana be her fate? Alice lives in fear that it might be, though even worse is the fear that she might not get a name at all.

The month ends with a dinner party for her father’s birthday part of being Woman of the House that has more downs than ups and with a totally unexpected event that makes Alice and everyone she knows grow up a little and wonder a little deeper about life and the future. April is a hard month, but reading about Alice in April is to find that most tragedies though not all pass and tears can turn to laughter and delight.

Alice In-Between

In between, that’s what Alice decides she is. During the spring of seventh grade and the summer that follows, she feels she is neither child nor woman, and waits, not so patiently, for beauty to blossom. As she turns 13 and her older brother, Lester, takes her out on the town, some almost grown up things happen to her, but there are unexpected dangers attached. And a marvelous trip to Chicago with her best friends, Pamela and Elizabeth, proves that ‘in between’ may not be such a bad place to be after all, when Pamela, acting too old for her age, attracts some unwanted attention, and Elizabeth promptly goes into shock. And when Patrick comes back into Alice’s life again, she realizes she doesn’t have to rush things. Being 13 has its advantages, she decides. Taking the pencil test, buying a hermit crab, and taking part in long conversations about life and sex are all a part of her world now. Alice is glad that the first seven grades are over with and she’s a teenager at last, but she’s also happy she does not yet have to face some of the problems mostly with girls that her brother faces, or even her father. For anyone who is in between and who isn’t? Alice in Between is a book to savor.

Alice the Brave

A month before eighth grade begins, Alice realizes she is going to have to face something she’s been afraid of forever. Everybody, she knows, is afraid of something: elevators, dogs, planes, spiders…
but her fear is worse. It’s going to bring absolute disaster to the rest of her summer, maybe to the rest of her life. The truth is she’s afraid of deep water! It’s a hot August, and everyone in Alice’s gang goes to Mark Stedmeister’s swimming pool almost every day. Alice sits at the shallow end. She plays badminton. She makes excuses, and keeps her problem secret. Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Pamela, Alice’s two best friends, tackle problems of their own, and are more or less successful. Life is changing for everyone but Alice. Bravery begins in little ways, with small steps. That’s what Alice finally discovers. And after she faces this particular fear, she knows she can summon the courage to face other fears as well. As in her previous adventures, Alice tackles some of the big problems of growing up with humor and enterprise and learns once again that a brother, a father, and friends can offer amazing amounts of help.

Alice in Lace

Alice suddenly finds herself married! Well, sort of. In an eighth grade health class, she and her friends are each given a hypothetical situation to help them learn to make good decisions. It’s all great fun until one of the students creates a problem that could have serious consequences for the whole class. The first semester of eighth grade is both exciting and complicated as Alice learns something about last year’s English teacher, Miss Summers, who is dating her father, and when one of her brother’s old girlfriends makes a startling announcement. Then there is the problem of how to afford a wedding and honeymoon, the pranks with Pamela’s pillow, a harrowing ride in a used car, Elizabeth’s confession, Patrick’s embarrassing request, and finally, a new person arrives on the scene. As usual, Alice has questions, but sometimes no one has the answers.

Outrageously Alice

Now that she is setting into eighth grade, the class she used to envy, Alice discovers it isn’t as exciting as she thought. She’s tired of being the same old Alice, and longs to be a bit outrageous.

Instead, she finds herself in situations that are more embarrassing then they are thrilling. She likes dressing up as a showgirl for Halloween, but hasn’t counted on what happens in the broom closet at school. And she’s delighted to be a bridesmaid, but feels awkward at the bridal shower. Even Patrick begins to seem childish to her.

Elizabeth and Pamela, however, her two best friends, feel that life is changing too much for them. Elizabeth finds that a new a boy at school is attracted to her, while Pamela faces a serious problem at home. Lester, too, Alice’s brother, can’t quite believe he’s losing his old girlfriend, Crystal. When Alice dials Miss Summers, however, the woman her father loves, there is always the hope that this time she will get the mother she has always wanted.

Achingly Alice

Alice decides she needs priorities in her life. What kind of future can you have if you don’t plan? Priority number one: get Miss Summers, the beautiful English teacher at her school, to marry Alice’s widowed father. After all, they’ve been dating for a year. The only problem is the vice principal, Mr. Sorringer. He wants to marry her too. Love, Alice finds, can be complicated, even in her own life. She has been Patrick’s girlfriend for almost two years. So why is she interested in other guys? But Alice isn’t the only one with problems. Her friends Elizabeth and Pamela have their own troubles with family, with boyfriends, and with very personal matters that Elizabeth doesn’t even want to discuss. If only there could be one day a week when things would stay the same: no embarrassing surprises. Life isn’t like that, however, and Alice has to be ready for whatever comes next.

Alice on the Outside

Alice likes her life, even though she realizes that change is on the way. She and her friends may develop separate interests and ideas, and sometimes she may find herself on the outside rather than inside her close circle, but the future looks good. Alice thinks she’s ready for it.

Her first look at that future comes when Aunt Sally and Cousin Carol visit. This is Alice’s chance to ask Carol what sex is really like for a woman. After all, her cousin was once married. But Alice discovers that sex and marriage are more complex than she had thought.

Sex is not the only area of life that turns out to be more difficult than Alice had expected. When her school observes a Consciousness Raising Week, Alice finds that prejudice is easier to acquire than to endure, especially when a new friend becomes the object of ridicule.

There is the Eighth Grade Semi-Formal to think about, however. It will be the crowning night of the school year. What could possibly go wrong? Not anything Alice could plan for. Sometimes, she finds, it is not planning that matters, but coping.

Alice is growing up. She is meeting new people, facing new problems, and giving readers new things to laugh and think about. She’s experimenting with life and finding it can be awful — but also, sometimes, very, very good.

The Grooming of Alice

The first day of the summer vacation between eighth and ninth grades, Alice, Pamela, and Elizabeth decide they have to get in shape. ‘However you look when you start ninth grade, that’s how people will think of you for the next four years,’ says Pamela. And they all begin jogging three miles every morning. ‘It’s going to be the most exciting summer of our lives,’ Pamela says. And Alice hopes it will be. But things keep happening that no one counted on. Alice knows that she is going to be a volunteer with her friend Gwen at the hospital; but she doesn’t know that along with the satisfaction of doing something useful she can also find an unexpected sorrow. And she certainly doesn’t know that trying to decide alone how to handle a Pamela emergency can be a big mistake. Pamela doesn’t know that she will be spending the summer dealing with the results of her parents’ separation. And Elizabeth does not know that trying to be thin and trying to be what everyone wants her to be can almost lead to disaster. Mixed with the problems and the complications the summer brings are moments of fun, moments of learning that variety is the way of nature beauty comes in more than one form and moments when all three girls see the future in whole new ways. There are also moments of stress and change for Lester, Alice’s brother, and for her father. Though nothing works out quite as planned, the end of summer does find everyone in better shape mentally if not physically.

Alice Alone

There’s a new girl in town, and she’s making Alice very nervous.

The start of ninth grade high school! is every bit as exciting, and challenging, as Alice had hoped, and feared, it would be. She finds her self confidence rising, and plummeting, depending on each new situation. Clas*ses are definitely more interesting, but algebra is proving to be nearly impossible. Patrick is in the accelerated program so they aren’t in the same clas*ses anymore. And while she’s thrilled to be chosen to work on the school newspaper, she finds that between an increased homework load and reporting assignments, she can’t always join Patrick when he wants to go out. But the new girl in town, Penny, can…
and does. Penny is everything Alice isn’t perky, petite, and cute as a button, and she doesn’t hide her interest in Patrick. Alice senses her seemingly perfect relationship with Patrick starting to crumble, along with her self confidence, and suddenly, Alice feels big and awkward and not particularly attractive. Could it be possible that Patrick could like someone else besides her? She can’t imagine life without Patrick in it.

But Patrick’s behavior isn’t the only thing that is baffling Alice. Elizabeth’s nearly hysterical reluctance to go to her piano lessons has Alice and Pamela completely bewildered, until Elizabeth breaks down and shares an awful secret she’s kept from everybody since she was seven…

And as Alice struggles to keep her jealousy of Penny at bay, she watches her father handle unsettling news regarding his fianc . Alice learns what trust is all about, and how confidence in yourself, and in others, is the most important thing of all.

Simply Alice

When they first broke up, Alice couldn’t imagine life without Patrick in it. But once she joins the school play and becomes more involved in the news paper, she’s busier than she’s ever been before too busy to pine for Patrick and too busy, or so Pamela and Eliza beth think, for them. As Alice spends more time with activities that don’t include Pamela and Elizabeth, they grow increasingly resentful. And Alice grows increasingly confused by their behavior. But they aren’t the only people confusing Alice. Her new friend, Faith, is seemingly incapable of ending a relationship with her abusive boyfriend. And Alice has been receiving oh so intriguing E mails from an admirer…
who won’t sign his name. As she tries to decide whether or not to meet her mystery fan, she also watches nervously as her brother Lester’s crush on his graduate school professor begins to border on obsession. As Alice completes her first year of high school, she learns that there IS life after Patrick, and that obsessions and jealousy can affect anyone. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has done it again with this fourteenth book in the beloved Alice series.

Patiently Alice

Now that she’s finished freshman year of high school and survived her first breakup, Alice is pretty sure that she’s finally got a handle on life. Dad and Sylvia are going to live happily ever after, Pamela can always be counted on to do something outrageous, Lester will always be there when she needs him, and Alice is way over Patrick. But when she heads off to be a camp counselor for three weeks with Elizabeth, Pamela, and Gwen, Alice is shocked to come home and find that everything has changed and not necessarily for the better! Patrick surprises Alice by turning to her for help, Pamela’s mother who ran away with the NordicTrack instructor is contemplating coming home, Lester’s been offered a deal he can’t refuse, and what’s worse, Dad and Sylvia’s happy future seems to have encountered some unforeseen complications. Finally, Elizabeth, who once felt that kissing was too much, goes further with a boy than any of them have yet! As Alice tries to cope with her changing world, she learns that life is never totally what you expect it to be and that even people you’ve known your entire life can still sometimes surprise you. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor does it again, proving that she understands what real girls think and feel, with the newest book in the beloved Alice series.

Including Alice

After four years of hoping, wishing, scheming, and waiting, the moment Alice has been yearning for has at long last arrived…
. Alice’s dad is finally marrying Sylvia Summers! Alice always knew they were perfect for each other when she set them up back in seventh grade, but she’s relieved that The Big Day is here. She’s never felt so excited, so vindicated, so grown up, and so…
well, so left out. Now that the wedding is really happening, no one has time for Alice anymore, and the situation just gets worse when Sylvia moves into their house. Nothing is the way Alice thought it would be. Her dad and Sylvia have their new life together; Lester has his new apartment; and Alice feels like she’s on her own for the first time in her life.

She’s also starting to notice that even though Dad and Sylvia are perfectly happy together, not everyone gets along so well. Elizabeth and Ross never see each other; Leslie and Lori are breaking up; Pamela and her mother can’t seem to find a way to even talk to each other; and Alice herself has started to hear some surprising rumors about Patrick…
.

As Alice watches her friends sort out their problems and sees her dad and Sylvia navigate their new marriage, she starts to understand all the hard work that goes into relationships and how even when people seem to be meant for each other, it’s not always easy to be together.

Alice on Her Way

Freedom!

It’s the moment Alice has been looking forward to for years her sixteenth birthday is coming up, and that means getting her driver’s licence, with the freedom that entails. And before that important milestone, there’s another delicious taste of freedom awaiting Alice and her friends a class trip to New York City, promising some serious partying once chaperones have gone to bed.

But sophomore year and driving lessons are a lot harder than Alice thought they would be, and then there’s the problem with her new boyfriend, who is sometimes too attached to her. The older Alice gets, the more complicated her life seems to become.

Alice in the Know

It’s the summer before junior year, and Alice is looking forward to three months of excitement, passion, and drama. But what does she find? A summer working in a local department store, trying to stop shoplifters, and more ‘real life’ problems than she could have ever imagined: A good friend becomes seriously ill, Lester has more romance problems than even Alice knows what to do with, and the gang from Mark Stedmeister’s pool is starting to grow up a bit faster than Alice is comfortable with…
. Fortunately for Alice her family and friends are with her through it all, and by the end of the summer, Alice finds she knows a whole lot more than she had in June.

Funny, touching, and always provocative, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor does it again, proving with this twenty first book in the beloved Alice series that she understands what real girls think and feel.

Dangerously Alice

Alice has always tried to be a decent person. She gets good grades, comes home on time, and has never really given her dad and her stepmom any reason to worry. But now that junior year of high school has started, Alice is a little sick of people assuming she’s a goody goody, so she decides to start shaking things up. First there are the dates with Tony, a cute senior who’s a lot more experienced than Alice. Then the fights with her stepmom about the new cat, the car, and everything else start. But when Alice sneaks off to a party that her parents don’t know about and a near tragedy follows, she starts to realize every choice has a consequence, and danger rarely leads to good ones.

Funny, realistic, and always provocative, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor does it again, proving that she understands what real girls think and feel, with this twenty second book in the beloved Alice series.

Almost Alice

Is it possible to be too good a friend too understanding, too always there, too much like a doormat? Alice has always been a good friend to Pamela and Liz, a best friend to Pamela and Liz. But she’s starting to wonder where that leaves her: What am I? An ear for listening? An arm around the shoulder? And then there’s Patrick after ending their relationship two years ago, he’s suddenly calling again, and wants to take her to his senior prom. What does that mean? As Alice tries to figure out who she is in relation to her friends, she learns one thing sometimes friends need you more than they let on…
especially when the unthinkable happens. Always honest, brave, and true, the Alice series never flinches from big issues, and never discounts the small ones.

Intensely Alice

In one single instant, everything can change…
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Wouldn’t it be great to go back to the time before Pamela got pregnant, before Patrick left for the University of Chicago, before anyone was making any big decisions about sex or college or life in general? Wouldn’t it be great to get the whole gang together again, just once? But what it takes for this to happen will change Alice and the whole gang forever.

Full of life the good, the bad, and the heartbreaking the latest Alice book reminds us all just how much can change in an instant.

Alice in Charge

At last, it’s Alice in Charge of her life, of her future…
but, is it too much?

Starting with Alice

This is where it all started!

Eight-year-old Alice McKinley wants pierced ears, really long hair, a pet, and, most of all, a mother. Oh, and some friends would be nice. As the new girl in third grade, Alice doesn’t know a single person in Takoma Park, Maryland, except for her next-door neighbor Donald Sheavers, who not only is a boy, but also seems to be a little bit peculiar! Desperate to meet people, Alice learns that making friends is harder than it seems when she runs into a group of girls whom she nicknames ‘the Terrible Triplets’ after they make it very clear that they do not want to get to know Alice. On top of all this, Alice also has to keep an eye on Donald’s recently divorced mom, who seems to have her eye on Alice’s dad!

This is the first of three prequels to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s beloved Alice series. Now younger girls can get to meet the girl everyone wants to be best friends with, and older girls will enjoy finding out how Alice came to be the Alice they know and love.

Alice in Blunderland


Here are all the embarrassing things that might happen to you in the fourth grade — and do happen to you, if your name is Alice McKinley:

1. Your next-door neighbor who happens to be a BOY! sees you in your underpants.

2. You sneeze beans all over your best friend.

3. Your brother lies to you for fun and you believe him.

4. You get trapped inside a snow cave — your own snow cave, that is.

5. You’re the only person in the whole grade who can’t sing.


Alice can’t seem to do anything right anymore, especially where her big brother Lester is concerned. When he gets really angry with her, Alice doesn’t know how to fix things between them. How is she going to get Lester to talk to her again? And will life ever get any easier? Fourth grade can’t end soon enough!

The second of three prequels to the beloved Alice series, Alice in Blunderland lets younger readers get to know the girl everyone wants to be friends with, and proves once again that Phyllis Reynolds Naylor knows the fears, foibles, and fun of being a girl.

Lovingly Alice

Alice McKinley is finding that fifth grade is full of mysteries.

Mystery 1: Where has her best friend Sarah’s family disappeared to?
Mystery 2: Why is her father going to a concert with a WOMAN?
Mystery 3: Isn’t a period what’s at the end of a sentence?
Mystery 4: How can Lester go to the prom with a broken leg?
Mystery 5: How exactly are babies made?

Alice isn’t too sure about any of these things, but on top of doing her homework, playing with Oatmeal, trying to keep Lester’s girlfriends straight, and setting her dad up with the school nurse, she’s determined to get to the bottom of them!

The last of the prequels to the beloved Alice series, Lovingly Alice lets younger readers get to know the girl everyone wants to be friends with and proves once again that Phyllis Reynolds Naylor understands all the fun of being a girl.

Bernie Magruder and the Case of the Big Stink

Sam suspects the culprit who is gassing assembly line workers in the parachute factory lives in the hotel his family manages.

The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel

Bodies are coming and going from the Bessledorf Hotel dead and alive! Who wants to stay in a hotel full of zombies? Not too many and that’s a big problem for Mr. Magruder, who’s trying hard to manage his hotel! Bernie’s determined to get to the bottom of the case. Will he and his friends Georgene and Weasel find out how these bodies are mysteriously moving from place to place?

Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel

What’s bigger than a chair, but smaller than a house? Larger than a loaf of bread, but isn’t an animal or a vegetable? What could this ghost want?! Bernie and his friends Georgene and Weasel are going crazy trying to figure out how to please the ghost who’s haunting Bernie’s father’s hotel. If Bernie’s father loses his job, then his family will need to move again but Bernie likes Middleburg, and wants to stay. And so, before his father can be ousted from the suffering hotel, Bernie must face the ghost and figure out how to make it leave them all alone!

The Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor

Everyone in Middleburg is talking about the new drive in viewing window at the Bessledorf Funeral Home at least until the vice president of the Higgins Roofing Company disappears along with the company’s pension fund, leaving behind only a mysterious chuck roast. For Bernie, it’s his chance to get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest person ever to capture a criminal he just wishes the case weren’t leading him to the creepy goings on at the funeral home.

Bernie Magruder and the Bus Station Blow Up

Could it be that someone in Bernie Magruder’s own family, the family that did such a good job of managing the Bessledorf Hotel, was the one who bombed the bus depot next door? Bernie didn’t want to believe it. But why else was Delores, his sister, so delighted that her former boyfriend had almost been hit by the bomb? And what was Bernie’s brother Joseph making behind the locked baseme*nt door? Officer Feeney said that families gave him more trouble than anyone else, and Bernie was beginning to understand why. On the one hand, it was Bernie who gave Officer Feeney the information that made him suspicious about Delores and brought him over to talk to Delores often enough that Mrs. Magruder was sure there would soon be a wedding in the family. And it was Bernie who told his friends Georgene and Weasel about Joseph. But, on the other hand, it was Bernie who led his friends into sleuthing to get at the truth of the matter. A hard job, especially after the first bomb was followed by several more. The bombs were a baffling mystery, with Bernie suspecting his family and at the same time trying to prove that none of them was involved. As always, Bernie, his family, their pets, friends, and guests prove that crime doesn’t pay.

Bernie Magruder and the Pirate’s Treasure

Did the long dead pirate Peg Leg bury his treasure in Middleburg, Indiana? Officer Feeney seems to think so. And Bernie Magruder, whose father runs the Bessledorf Hotel in Middleburg, believes him. After all, the Middleburg River runs into the Wabash, the Wabash flows into the Ohio, the Ohio runs into the Mississippi, the Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf, as everyone should know, opens into the Atlantic, which is where the pirates were. Is this why a pale light bobs about in the dark of night on Bessledorf Hill? Is this why holes appear on the hill? Has the spirit of Peg Leg returned for his treasure? Or does the great great greatgreat great great grandson of Peg Leg, who turns up at the Bessledorf Hotel with a treasure map, know more about these mysterious events than he is willing to tell? Rumors of the old pirate bring treasure hunters from everywhere, and once more Bernie and the colorful characters who form his family have a mystery on their hands.

Bernie Magruder and the Parachute Peril

The sign in the parachute factory reads: ‘…
to insure that every parachute will open, each of our employees knows that at any time, an inspector may require him to jump from a plane in the parachute he has just completed.’

Bernie Magruder does not think this will ever apply to his sister Delores, who works at the factory. What Bernie wants is for Delores to marry, leave home, and give her nice, large bedroom to him. So he and his friends create a romance between Delores and Dwayne Hopper, who also works at the factory.

There are puzzling questions about Dwayne, however, and also about a strange building going up in a nearby town. But as Bernie investigates, it proves, as his dad says, that ‘Magruders welcome challenge, thrive on change, seek out the difficult, go where angels fear to tread, feed a fever, and starve a cold.’ The results are nationwide publicity for Delores, tense moments for the Magruder family, and a wonderfully funny story for Bessledorf readers.

Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry

There are strange goings on once again in Middleburg, and Bernie Magruder is determined to get to the bottom of things, and maybe get his picture in the paper in the process. Someone has put up posters all over town warning townspeople that the dreaded Indiana Aztec bat, whose bite is often fatal, has been sighted in the area. What’s more, the town is in a political uproar over the bells recently placed in the church belfry that every hour twenty four hours a day chime out the hymn ‘Abide with me.’ Placed there in accordance with the will of town benefactor Eleanor Scuttlefoot so that her surviving husband will always be reminded of her, the incessant pealing of the bells is driving the town mad. Who put up all those posters about a species of bat no one has ever heard of? What can the townspeople do to return some peace to their lives? And are the bats that Bernie and his family see swooping about the belfry the dreaded Indiana Aztecs? Bernie Magruder and his friends Georgene and Weasel set out to answer these questions in this new volume in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s hilarious series about the Magruder family who live in and operate Middleburg’s famous Bessledorf Hotel.

The Boys Start the War

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Hatford brothers expected three boys to move into the house where their best friends used to live. When the Malloy sisters arrive instead, the boys make a plan to drive them back to Ohio.

The Girls Get Even

A Newbery Award winning AuthorWinner of the Young Reader’s Choice AwardSince the Malloy sisters moved across the river from the Hartford brothers, the boys have used every trick they know to get the girls to want to move back to Ohio. Still smarting from the latest episode, the girls are determined to get even. The boys, however, have a creepy plan for Halloween night.

Boys Against Girls

The Hatford Malloy feud continues in this fast paced sequel to The Boys Start the War and The Girls Get Even both Delacorte, 1993. Their egos still smarting from the humiliation they suffered on Halloween at the hands of their female neighbors, the Hatford boys try to frighten them with tales of the abaguchie, a creature of local legend. A funny series of plans for revenge and retaliation from both sides follows. Ultimately, the children call a truce when they are united by a common cause sharing a joke at their parents’ expense. Although this title sums up the background of the story clearly, it relies on the earlier books for characterization. The girls come across as stereotypes an athlete, a bookworm, and an aspiring actress and the boys are virtually indistinguishable from one another. Nevertheless, fans of the previous books will enjoy this installment.

The Girls’ Revenge

This fourth book about the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters begins shortly before Christmas, three months after the Malloys move to Buckman, WV. As the holiday season approaches, the boys and girls continue to play pranks on one another and begin to learn the consequences of their actions. Caroline Malloy and Wally Hatford are partners for their fourth grade December project and discover that, instead of annoying one another, they need to learn how to work together in order to receive a passing grade. Told in their alternating viewpoints, the story moves quickly, continuing the mischief and humor of the previous novels. Readers will be especially taken with precocious and dramatic Caroline, who will stop at nothing for revenge. While it is not necessary to read the first three books, fans of the series will enjoy references to the characters’ past pranks and will delight in the promise of future additions to this ongoing battle between these rivals.

A Traitor Among the Boys

‘Fans of the series and newcomers alike will enjoy this entertaining read and the mischievous pranks the two groups play on one another.’ School Library Journal

After all the trouble at Christmas, the Hatford boys make a New Year’s resolution to treat the Malloy girls like sisters. But who says you can’t play tricks on sisters? The girls will need to stay one step ahead of the boys, and are willing to pay big time for advance information. Homemade cookies should be all it takes to make a traitor spill the beans. But which boy has loose lips?

Caroline’s horrified about sharing her birthday with her enemy Wally, but is thrilled with her role in the town play. Don’t ask how Beth, Josh, and Wally get roped into it just wait until showtime, when Caroline pulls her wildest stunt yet! As each side wonders how far the other will go, they unexpectedly find themselves facing a blizzard and worrying about their parents’ safety. That’s when the lights go out.

A Spy Among the Girls

Valentine’s Day is coming up and love is in the air between Beth Malloy and Josh Hatford. When they are spotted holding hands, Josh tells his teasing brothers that he s simply spying on the girls to see what they re plotting next. When Caroline Malloy decides she must know what it s like to fall in love, too, poor Wally Hatford is in for it! Meanwhile, big sister Eddie couldn t care less about that mushy stuff. All she cares about is her sixth grade science fair project. But when she comes up with a great plan, Josh and Jake Hatford horn in on her project. On the day the plan goes into action, little do the boys know that Eddie has a trick up her sleeve. And with daredevil Caroline s amazing attention getting stunt, trouble is sure to follow. Get ready, the Malloys and Hatfords are at it again!

The Boys Return

It’s spring break and the only assignment Wally Hatford and Caroline Malloy have is to do something that they have never done before. Wally’s sure that will be a cinch once he hears the great news about the mighty Benson brothers coming to stay for vacation. It will be nonstop action all the way. For starters, the nine Benson and Hatford boys plan on scaring the three Malloy sisters silly by convincing them that their house is haunted. Of course, the boys don’t know that the girls are hard at work plotting their own special surprise welcome. The Bensons don’t know what they’re up against with the Malloy girls. But they soon will.

Meanwhile, everyone in town knows there’s a hungry cougar on the prowl. When the kids decide to take a break from their tricks and join forces in catching the cougar, guess who gets stuck with the scariest job? This will surely be something no one has ever done before.

The Girls Take Over

The race is on! The Hatford boys and the Malloy girls are ready to outdo one another again. Eddie is the first girl to ever try out for the school baseball team. Now she and Jake are competing for the same position, while Caroline and Wally compete for class spelling bee champ. Wally is itching to win, but Caroline the show off plans to be number one.

As if that wasn t enough, the kids decide to race bottles down the rising Buckman River to see whose will go the farthest by the end of the month. The winner will be queen or king for the day while the other kids act as servants. But neither team trusts the other. When the girls go down to the river to try and capture the boys bottles, Caroline falls into the rising water. It looks like those Malloy girls may be in over their heads this time!

From the Hardcover edition.

Boys in Control

Play ball! That’s what the sixth grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans on doing. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But due to a mix up, Mrs. Hatford has to run a yard sale for the Women s Auxiliary of the Buckman Fire Department the very same day in their very own yard! Not wanting to miss out on the game, the family elects the only nonbaseball fan in the family, Wally, to stay home and help watch over the sale tables until they return. Wally s ticked off. On top of that, Caroline Malloy has written and will perform a play for a school project and has roped Wally into costarring with her. Let Caroline think she s so smart. Wally has his own reason for being in the play. It looks like the Hatfords could be totally humiliated after the girls stumble upon an embarrassing item from the boys past. Leave it to Wally s secret plan to turn the tables on the girls scheme and prove who s really in control! Boys rule!From the Hardcover edition.

Girls Rule!

SUMMER IS AROUND the corner, and the rivalry between the Malloys and the Hatfords is heating up! The kids have two weeks to earn money for a fundraising contest sponsored by the local hospital. Those who collect $20 or more for the new children’s wing can choose to be in the annual Strawberry Festival Parade or get all the strawberry treats they can eat. There s only one place Caroline Malloy wants to be: smack dab in the middle of the glamourous Strawberry Queen s float. But how will she earn the money in such a short time? Do the Hatford brothers have moneymaking secrets that they re not telling the girls?From the Hardcover edition.

Boys Rock!

Wally Hatford dreams of long lazy days far away from school and Caroline Malloy. But Wally, the best speller among the Hatford brothers, gets roped into helping them with a summer newspaper project that will earn the twins school credit. What does that get Wally? When he hears scratching noises coming from Oldakers bookstore cellar, Mr. Oldaker trusts him to keep a secret that could turn into a scoop for their newspaper. Wally worries that the secret may be too scary to keep to himself. What’s worse, the Malloy girls have horned in on the newspaper. If there s one person Wally won t spill his secret to, it s nutty Caroline Malloy. No matter what it is!From the Hardcover edition.

Who Won the War?

Who will win as the curtain closes on the war between the girls and the boys?
Summer vacation is almost over and after one year in Buckman it looks like the Malloy girls will be going home to Ohio. The Hatford boys are relieved to finally be rid of Eddie, Beth and Caroline, also known as the Womper, the Weirdo and the Crazy.

As the clock ticks away at their final days, Jake and Eddie keep up the competing, tricking and scheming until Eddie puts Jake up to the biggest dare of the year. She wants to prove once and for all that the girls are in charge. Jake can’t back away and let the girls declare victory. The wacky war that began the day the girls arrived isn’t over yet!

The Grand Escape

It’s a scary world out there. If only Marco hadn’t read a newspaper article about a ranch and become determined to see one. If only Polo hadn’t found himself longing for the mother he barely remembered as a soft warm wiggle purr milk tongue. Then the two tabbies might have been content to remain pampered house cats forever. But when their owners leave a door open, Marco and Polo can’t resist the temptation to escape to the outside world. Their search for food and a dry place to sleep leads them to Texas Jake and the cats of the Club of Mysteries. Life on the streets is a lot easier with friends, but Marco and Polo have to prove themselves before they can become members of the club. And that means facing the huge mastiff Bertram the Bad, a pack of savage river rats, and a barren landscape that may be the ranch of Marco’s dreams even if it seems more like a nightmare. Home is starting to look better and better…
Don’t miss any of The Cat Pack’s adventures.

The Healing of Texas Jake

Texas Jake, the big yellow tomcat with the white belly, has risked his life to save his friends from the huge mastiff known as Bertram the Bad. Now Marco and Polo, the newest members of the Club of Mysteries, find they have an assignment to help Texas Jake recover from his wounds. The other cats have duties too, but somehow Marco and Polo always seem to get the worst of the deal.

Could Texas Jake be a wee bit jealous of Marco, the cat who can ‘reeeaaad,’ as Texas is so fond of saying? And if he doesn’t recover, who will take his place? Boots? Elvis? Marco? Polo? Which of the cats does Carlotta, the calico beauty, prefer? That’s the big question.

Polo wishes they had never left the comfort of their velveteen basket back at the Neals’, especially when he learns that he and Marco must venture over to the city dump, hangout of the dreaded Steak Knife and his Over the Hill Gang. The Healing of Texas Jake is Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s charming, funny sequel to her best seller, The Grand Escape.

Carlotta’s Kittens

It is the coldest part of winter and all of the male cats in the Club of Mysteries which meets over Murphy’s garage have one thing on their minds: Carlotta. Has anyone seen the she cat that they all adore? Has she had her kittens yet? Because they all know that once Carlotta and her kittens appear, it will be their job not only to protect the young ones from the dangers of the world including being discovered and taken to the pound but also to teach them the skills they’ll need to survive.

Elvis plans to teach them to sing. Polo will teach them to leap. Marco, of course, will teach them to read, and Texas Jake, the imposing leader of the Club, will teach them how to hunt. Underlying all of their efforts is each cat’s secret hope that he will shine brightest in Carlotta’s eyes.

But the male cats soon learn that Hamburger, Scamper, Mustard, Sugar, and Catnip as the kittens are named are more of a handful than they had expected.

Polo’s Mother

Polohas always longed to find his mother. All he remembers is that she was soft and warm and smelled of milk. So when sassy, street smart Geraldine returns, she isn’t exactly the mother he expected. But Polo is still thrilled to have found her and is eager to show her off to his pack of friends in the Club of Mysteries. As usual, there are many mysteries to be solved. Does the light inside a refrigerator turn off when the door is shut? What is at the top of a church steeple, anyway? But perhaps the most puzzling mystery of all is one Polo cannot figure out: Does his mother truly love him? If so, can he convince her to change her roaming ways and stay? Irresistible to cat lovers everywhere, this is a heartening conclusion to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Cat Pack series.

Emily’s Fortune

From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains. Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned, she is left all alone except for her turtle, Rufus. What in blinkin’ bloomers should Emily do? Emily’s neighbors, Mrs. Ready, Mrs. Aim, and Mrs. Fire, have the answer: Emily must travel by stagecoach to the home of her honorable aunt Hilda. What a rootin’ tootin’ grand idea! But Miss Catchum of the Catchum Child Catching Services will get a big bonus for delivering Emily to her next of kin, the vicious Uncle Victor. How the ding dong dickens will Emily escape Miss Catchum? It will take all the gumption and cunning of fellow orphan and traveler Jackson to help Emily find her confidence, her conniving spirit, and the true reason Uncle Victor wants to claim her. But how in flippin’ flapjacks will Emily outsmart Uncle Victor? From the Hardcover edition.

Roxie and the Hooligans

What do you do if you’re buried in an avalanche? Roxie Warbler knows what to do in all kinds of situations. And she’s learned it all from her favorite book: Lord Thistlebottom’s Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them. But there’s one situation Roxie doesn’t know how to handle and that’s dealing with Helvetia’s Hooligans, the meanest band of bullies in school. Then Roxie and the Hooligans are stranded together on a desert island, the hideout of a couple of criminals on the lam. Can five kids, armed with only a load of survival tactics and a little bit of teamwork, vanquish the villains and find their way home? Do not panic. Dig a hole around yourself and spit. The saliva will fall downward, telling you which direction is up.

Shiloh

From Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes this unabridged recording of her Newbery Award winning tale of adventure, courage and love the timeless and moving story of a dog in trouble and the young boy who would save him. Eleven year old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. Sometimes he takes his . 22 rifle to shoot cans from the rail fence. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer. But one summer Sunday, Marty comes across something different on the road just past the old Shiloh schoolhouse a young beagle and that’s where the trouble begins. What do you do when a dog you suspect is being mistreated runs away and comes to you? When the man who owns the dog has a gun? This is Marty’s problem, and it is one he will have to face alone. Soon Marty will have to put his courage on the line, discovering in the process that it is not always easy to separate right from wrong. Sometimes, however, a boy will do almost anything to save a dog.

Shiloh Season

After Marty Preston worked so hard to earn the dog Shiloh, he had hoped that his troubles with Judd Travers were over. He could not rescue all the dogs that Judd mistreated, but since Shiloh was the one who ran away and came with him, Shiloh was the one he loved. Judd, however, has other problems. Anyone who cheats and swears and lies and kicks his dogs has troubles inside himself, and when the man starts drinking, Marty realizes that Shiloh is in danger once again. As hunting season approaches and Judd begins hunting on their land, the Prestons know that something is bound to happen. They’re right. Marty does the only thing he can think of to do, and discovers just how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal. Michael Moriarty received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor for his role on Law and Order, and received Emmy Awards for his performances in the The Glass Menagerie and the miniseries Holocaust. Highlights of his film credits include Pale Rider, Courage Under Fire and the movie adaptation of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Shiloh.

Saving Shiloh

In Saving Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor brings to a conclusion the trilogy begun with the Newbery Medal winner Shiloh and its sequel, Shiloh Season. Judd Travers is physically on the mend from the truck accident that nearly took his life in Shiloh Season. But is he healing inside too? Can Marty and his family and the community trust that Judd will not return to his evil ways? Marty’s parents tell him that every person deserves a second chance. Most people in the surrounding community, however, are quick to assume the opposite and find ways to place Judd at the center of any trouble–even murder.

And then there’s Marty, stuck right in the middle, wanting to believe in Judd, but afraid of anything that might place himself or his beloved dog, Shiloh, in jeopardy. Are his efforts to help Judd–and Judd’s remaining dogs–worthwhile, or is Marty’s friend David Howard right in seeing mounting evidence of the real trouble Judd is in? Finally something unexpected happens that puts Judd to the test–Judd and Shiloh, Marty and his sisters, the whole community, in fact.

Anyone Can Eat Squid!

Sarah Simpson is tired of being ordinary. The most unusual thing she has ever done is bite the dentist’s fingers. So what can she do to be special? Trade names with her best friend? Eat snails and squid? When Sarah learns that her favorite Chinese restaurant might go out of business, she comes up with a plan. One that makes people want to say, ‘Here comes Sarah Simpson!’ and saves Wongs Restaurant, too. In quintessential Phyllis Reynolds Naylor style, this delightful story speaks straight to the heart of kids as they struggle to define themselves.

Cuckoo Feathers

Cuckoo Feathers is a Marshall Cavendish publication.

Patches and Scratches

Sarah Simpson likes to get big ideas that will solve problems. But her best friend, Peter, presents her with a problem that seems impossible to solve. He wants a dog, but his granny Belle won t let him have one. She says a dog would be too much work. Sarah tries to convince Peter to get another pet. But nothing works…
until a stray cat turns up. Will Peter accept it? Will Granny Belle come around? Finally Sarah comes up with just the right BIG IDEA to solve the problem!

Eating Enchiladas

Sleepovers are especially fun at a Mexican family’s house.

Witch’s Sister

When the darkness, tolls the hour, I shall have you in my power…
Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are positive their neighbor, Mrs. Tuggle, is a witch. And they suspect the old woman is forcing Lynn’s sister, Judith, to join her coven to witches. But Lynn and Mouse can’t prove anything and their parents don’t believe them. the girls are desperate to expose Mrs. Tuggle’s evil nature, especially since her actions are becoming more threatening everyday. Now Lynn’s parents have announced that they’re going away for the weekend, leaving Judith and Mrs. Tuggle in charge. Can the girls outsmart Mrs. Tuggle and save Lynn’s family or is the dark magic too strong to conquer?

Witch Water

Feel the darkness, touch the black, hear the shadows whispers back…
Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are convinced Mrs. Tuggle is a witch, even if no one believes them. Lynn thought they were safe after they escaped the witch’s clutches last summer, but the evil Mrs. Tuggle hasn’t finished with them yet. A menacing flock of crows is following Mouse’s every move and the girls’ only protection against this dangerous woman is destroyed. Lynn and Mouse know they have to act fast. But they don’t know what Mrs. Tuggle is planning, and this time, they may not get away so easily…

The Witch Herself

From the shadows of the pool, Black as midnight, thick as gruel…
Is Mrs. Tuggle a witch? Lynn and Mouse are sure she is how else can you explain the frightening things that have been taking place over the past several months? Now Lynn’s mom is planning to move her writing studio into Mrs. Tuggle’s house for the winter, and Lynn can’t imagine a more dangerous situation. If she and Mouse don’t do something, there’s no telling what horrifying things may happen. They’ve got to save lynn’s mom before Mrs. Tuggle strikes again but how?

The Witch’s Eye

Fast upon us spirits all, listen for our whispered call…
Lynn knows she should feel safe now. Her family’s suspicious neighbor Mrs. Tuggle died in the fire that destroyed her house and things are returning to normal. However, Lynn can’t shake the feeling that Mrs. Tuggle’s evil presence is rising again. Lynn hears the old woman hauntingly calling to her at night. And her little brother is acting so strangely that Lynn is convinced Mrs. Tuggle is trying to harm him. But Lynn’s dad won’t hear of it, her mom won’t talk about it, and her best friend wishes the whole thing would just go away. Lynn is determined to find out why Mrs. Tuggle is reaching out from beyond the dead. Or why she never really disappeared…

Witch Weed

‘One of the most feared of a witch’s powers is that of the evil eye…

After throwing Mrs. Tuggle’s evil glass eye into the creek, Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, anticipate a soothing summer. But when Lynn notices some strange looking purple plants growing down by the creek, she begins to worry. Is she imagining it, or are the plants sprouting right near where she threw the eye?

What’s worse is that some girls from school may be starting their own coven of witches and Mouse might be getting sucked in!

Does Mrs. Tuggle have unfinished business with them? And if so, can Lynn fight her evil again?

The Witch Returns

After a fire claims Mrs. Tuggle’s house and the old witch that lived inside, a new house is built over the ashes, but Lynn and Mouse suspect that an evil presence is still there. By the author of The Witch’s Eye.

Shadows on the Wall

While visiting York, England, a young American, already troubled by family problems, is assailed by strange feelings of dread whenever he approaches some of the ancient landmarks of the city.

Footprints at the Window

In this conclusion to the York Trilogy, is Dan closer to answering his questions, and discovering who left the Footprints at the Window? Dan has had enough of the uncertainty surrounding his life these days. While he may not be able to change his family’s troubling secret, he intends to put a stop to his encounters with mysterious gypsies both in the present and the past. By summoning the gypsies to join him, Dan is once again propelled into the past, this time to the era of the Black Death. Will Dan survive the widespread disaster that threatens to destroy the world as he knows it? And if so, will it change him forever? Dan’s journey begins with Shadows on the Wall and continues with Faces in the Water.

Wrestle the Mountain

Even at eleven, Jed knew he didn t want to work in the coal mines like his father and the four generations before him. The mines provided a meager subsistence for the families of Tin Creek, West Virginia, but they also crippled and took lives. Jed dreamed of being a wood carver and he had the talent for it. He hoped his pa would understand, but sometimes he felt that talking with ‘Big Tate’ was like yelling at the mountain. ‘You re the only son I got,’ Jed’s father told him. ‘If it ain t to be the mines, it s got to be somethin awful good.’ With the encouragement of his teacher and the help of his aunt, Jed sets out to find his own path. A path that might lead to steady, safe work under the open sky and to peace with his father.

To Walk the Sky Path

The first person in his family to attend a white school, Billie Tommie, a ten year old Seminole Indian living on a mangrove island in the Florida Everglades, is torn between tradition and the ways of the whites. LJ. AB. PW.

Walking Through the Dark

The Depression causes Ruth’s dream of college and a teaching career to be no longer certain, but at the same time it enables her to grow as a person as she encounters others in difficult situations.

Eddie, incorporated

Twelve year old Eddie decides to go into business for himself with two friends and soon discovers that a business is not a simple thing.

All Because I’m Older

John, who finds being the oldest child very difficult, keeps his sister out of mischief and his brother out of his hair on a trip to the supermart.

The Boy with the Helium Head

Jonathan goes to the doctor for a flu shot and accidentally gets shot with a dose of helium. Now all he can do is float around. That’s one way to avoid Duke, the school bully. But how long can Jonathan stay up, up, and away?

Night Cry

Ellen had never been out of the low hill country of northeastern Mississippi. Since the death of her mother many years before, and the death of her younger brother only a year or so earlier, she and her father had shared their cabin and five acres of land alone. Except for Sleet, the horse that because he feared lightning and thunder had thrown and killed her brother. Ellen was terrified of Sleet. It was summer. Ellen’s father’s newest job he had had many was as a calendar salesman, so he was gone a great deal of the time. Her only contact with the outside world was through the telephone and news programs on the TV. The family’s nearest neighbor was Granny Bo, an old woman full of stories of days past and dark forebodings about the present and future, which she read from signs and portents she clearly accepted as true. Ellen believed and shared Granny Bo’s fears even when she did not want to. Then, stirring events in the nearby town, a stranger and his wife living in a nearby abandoned house, a kidnapping, and deeper and deeper questions in Ellen’s mind about everyone she knew including her father and Granny Bo conspired to make Ellen face her fears and find her courage, just when it was most needed.

The Dark of the Tunnel

Disturbed by a poorly planned, approaching civil defense drill and by the circumstances of his mother’s death, a high school senior decides to take action.

The Keeper

Junior high school student Nick must face the fact that his father is plunging fast into serious mental illness.

The Year of the Gopher

In his senior year of high school, seventeen year old George begins to seriously question his parents’ plans and assumptions about his future and decides to try to find his own way.

One of the Third Grade Thonkers

Jimmy Novak, whose dad is a towboat worker, is really looking forward to spring vacation. Jimmy and his club, the ‘Rough, Tough, an Terrible’ Thonkers, are going to convert the Novaks’ garage into a clubhouse for an entire week. When Mrs. Novak tells Jimmy that his cousin David is going to be staying with them while his mother recovers from heart surgery, Jimmy sees his fun filled vacation going down the drain. Unlike the Thonkers, who are known for their bravery, David is scared of practically everything, is fussy about what he eats, and wears cute, perfectly matched clothes. Jimmy wants to have nothing to do with David, especially since the Thonkers are secretly planning a feat of daring that is sure to turn every boy in the third grade green with envy. Then something happens something on the river and Jimmy begins to realize that courage takes many forms; even someone like David can be brave. One of the Third Grade Thonkers is the warm and exciting new novel by award winning author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

Keeping a Christmas Secret

‘Don’t tell, don’t tell,’ everyone keeps saying to Michael. And boy is it annoying. Of course he’s not going to tell his dad what they got him for Christmas! Michael can keep a secret. When Michael does tell his father though he’s sure he was tricked into doing it, Christmas is almost ruined. But Michael comes up with his own special secret. And not only is Christmas saved, but Michael proves he can keep a secret after all!

Beetles, Lightly Toasted

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Andy’s entering the fifth grade essay contest stirs his imagination to creative heights as he competes with his know it all cousin by making recipes with some unusual food sources and testing them on unaware friends and family.

King of the Playground

Kevin loves to go to the playground, but not when Sammy is there. And Sammy, who boasts that he is King of the Playground, is there most of the time. If he catches Kevin on the swings or the slide or the monkey bars, Sammy says, he will do awful, terrible things to him. Kevin tells his dad what Sammy says and they talk it over. And then one day Kevin gets his courage up and goes to the playground even though Sammy says he can’t come in. Even though Sammy tells him to go home. Even though Sammy says he will put Kevin in a cage with bears in it. Will Kevin stay, or will he go home? How will he deal with Sammy?

The Fear Place

For Doug’s brother, Gordie, the ridge with its spectacular view is a magical, special place, but for Doug, it’s The Fear Place. Two years ago, Doug hiked to the ridge during his family’s annual camping trip, and he vowed never again to cross the narrow ledge from which the earth dropped away six hundred feet to the canyon below. But now the boys’ parents have been called from their vacation by a family emergency, and Doug and Gordie are alone in the wilderness. After one of their seemingly endless fights, Gordie has stomped away from their campsite. When Girdle doesn’t return, Doug fears the worst, particularly when he hears reports that a cougar has been sighted nearby. Doug knows he has to go after his brother, and he knows where he will find him. What he can’t imagine is the surprising source of the courage to overcome his fears.

Ice

Can the truth thaw Chrissa’s frozen heart?

It’s been three years since Chrissa’s father walked out of her life. Too angry even to speak to her mother, Chrissa is obsessed with finding the answers to her questions: Why did her father leave? Why does she never hear from him? And is it somehow her fault, for not being the daughter he wanted her to be?

Now, unable to deal with Chrissa’s silence, her mother has sent her away from New York City home to spend a year in the country with her grandmother. Perhaps in Gram’s house, in the rural community which her father grew up, Chrissa will discover the secret of his disappearance.

Instead, Chrissa finds more secrets and suspicions. And, surprisingly, she finds strength she never knew she had. Strength she will need when she must confront the most devastating secret of all.

Being Danny’s Dog

When Danny tries to be the man of the house and suddenly takes an interest in girls, his faithful younger brother, T. R., decides that Danny has taken leave of his senses, and T. R. must keep an eye on him.

I Can’t Take You Anywhere!

Amy Audrey Perkins’s parents like to stay at home. And that’s no wonder. Because when Amy Audrey goes out, she can’t go anywhere without spilling something, falling down, or generally embarrassing any family member who she happens to be with. Can Amy Audrey avoid disaster at Aunt Linda’s wedding? Aunts, uncles, Mom and Dad soon see that Amy Audrey can behave just as ‘perfectly’ as they do. And that they, too, can behave just as clumsily as she does. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor writes an amusing and supportive tale for kids who, like Amy Audrey, can’t seem to get out of anybody’s way, and assures them that everyone can be clumsy at one time or another.

Ducks Disappearing

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Willie is having fun counting the eleven ducklings parading behind mama duck outside the motel restaurant. But soon he realizes that some of the ducklings seem to be disappearing, and the grown ups he tells don’t take him very seriously. It’s up to a resourceful young boy to show that good counting and caring are called for to get to the bottom of things.

Sang Spell

Josh is hitchhiking from Boston to Dallas to begin a new life, trying to sort out the changes that have skewed his world since an accident killed his mother and made a mockery of his dreams. No longer will he be what he was an important person in a high school he loved. Instead he will be starting his junior year in a place where no one will know him, no one will care.

He wanders up a road he has taken away from the interstate, where he has been thumbing rides, looking for a village where he might find shelter from the unexpected August cold and rain. When a car comes along, it looks like a ride to somewhere. And that’s what it proves to be. But the somewhere he finds is not the somewhere he expected. It is a place that knows him, knows the darkness inside of him; that offers food and shelter, but also confronts him with choices he does not know how to make. It probes his past, examines his possible futures, and finally pierces the wall of despair he has built around himself.

Sang Spell is a fantasy built on the hopes and dreams of a people who longed for a place of peace, for a way out of the dark and the rain. Some might think finding such a place to be a miracle, but not Josh. To him it is a nightmare, a prison he cannot escape. Sang Spell is an adventure into a place of forgotten people, the Melungeons, and into the boundaries created by the human mind.

Danny’s Desert Rats

In Danny’s Desert Rats, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor offers readers, girls included, her second book about T.R. Scarlino, his older brother, Danny, and their friends in the not so kid friendly condominium complex called Rosemary Acres. As in the first book, Being Danny’s Dog, T.R. feels that he has to keep an eye on Danny, who has become the ‘man of the house’ since the divorce of their parents, and keep him out of trouble. Yet at the same time T.R. doesn’t quite understand some of the things Danny is going through especially when it comes to his newfound interest in girls, the girl named Mickey in particular. There are times when T.R. thinks Danny has just lost his mind! Now the gang dubbed the ‘Desert Rats’ by T.R.’s mom one hot summer day must rally around their friend Paul in his attempt to conceal something from the strict management at Rosemary Acres. Rules may be rules, but if breaking one leads to a happier Paul, the kids feel it’s worth it. With the same humor, sensitivity, and accuracy she uses in her widely acclaimed Alice series, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor probes the struggles of two boys as they face the typical trials of adolescence, in a household without a father.

Walker’s Crossing

Ryan wants just one thing: to be a cowboy a working cowboy on the large Saddlebow Ranch in Wyoming, where he and his family live. Ryan, a tall seventh grader, knows the dangers of ranch life: Once his father was cow boss, but now, after an injury, he is simply the ranch caretaker, seeing that fences are mended and watching over the family’s few head of cattle. Even so, Ryan does not change his mind. However, Ryan’s older brother, Gil, sees dangers greater than injury ahead. He and the men who belong to the Mountain Patriots Association, a local militia group, are convinced that the United States government, foreign immigrants, and people who are racial minorities are going to take over the area. Not without a fight, however: The Mountain Patriots are armed for battle. It will take men, real men like them, Gil believes, to save their part of the West for the white race. As the ranching community becomes increasingly divided between those who accept the views of the Mountain Patriots and those who do not, Ryan is torn. Is Gil right? Some of what he says sounds logical. Or are those who disagree, but who also sound sensible, right? Clearly, confrontation and disaster are on the way. Ryan does not plan to be in the middle of it when it comes, but that is where he finds himself. And that is where, as a consequence, he learns what it really means to be a man, what it takes to build a good future, and how to find your place in a changing world.

Jade Green

At first glance the large brown house at the end of Stone Street seems so forbidding that Judith Sparrow wants to turn back. But turn back to where? Recently orphaned, she has no alternative other than to be taken in by her stern uncle Geoffrey, who agreed to the arrangement with one peculiar provision: Judith could bring with her whatever belongings she liked except for anything green. The color green is strictly forbidden in his house. Upon arrival at the house, Judith is determined to make the best of it and indeed is cheered by the warmth and charm of Mrs. Hastings, her uncle’s housekeeper, if less so by her older cousin Charles, who seems to alternate between friendliness and a certain suspicious animosity. Even her uncle seems willing to open up to her at times. But then strange, ghostly things begin to happen, and Judith finds her happiness in her new home, including a budding romance with Zeke, the miller’s son, compromised by terrifying experiences she can share with no one, not to mention the ghastly stories she hears about the household’s past. And Judith must wonder if her one small transgression of the rule her having concealed in her trunk a small green picture frame given to her by her mother has somehow caused it all by bringing that past to life again.

The Great Chicken Debacle

Hoping to earn a trip to an amuseme*nt park, the three Morgan children agree to take care of a chicken that their father plans to give their mother as a birthday surprise.

Please DO Feed the Bears

Percy’s family is going on a picnic, and he can’t imagine being at the beach without his favorite stuffed animals. There’s his teddy, his grizzly, his old black bear, his panda…

But the car is jam packed, and his family warns him that there isn’t room. In order to bring his bear family, they’d have to leave something behind.

And so, without thinking it through, Percy leaves something behind, with disastrous results. But in the end, Percy and his bears save the day.

Blizzard’s Wake

Ever since fifteen year old Kate Sterling’s mother died four years ago, nothing has been the same. Filled with resentment and sadness, and trying to fill the void left by her mother, Kate has shut herself off from the world and her family. Zeke Dexter is heading home to begin a new life after completing his prison term, but he is filled with anxiety. Will anyone in his small town be able to forget his shameful past or the crime he committed and let him start anew? And if he’s not welcomed at home, where else could he go? Phyllis Reynolds Naylor weaves a taut, gripping story about grief, determination, and healing as the lives of the Sterling family and Zeke Dexter bind together. Set against the actual events of the March 1941 blizzard, Naylor’s touching new period novel will be welcomed by her many fans.

After

A revealing, amusing book. San Jose Mercury News Naylor’s easy writing style keeps the story fresh…
. A story of a likable man and his family, all of whom dearly miss the person who held them together. USA Today Popular fiction for intelligent readers, something always in short supply and always welcome. Washington Post Book World Widower Harry is suddenly a single parent again, albeit of grown children. And women are pursuing him again. He is unprepared for any of this, and what results is amusing. Harry s coping with parenthood and dating makes for an irreverent frolic. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is a recipient of a grant from NEA and winner of the Newbery Medal for Shiloh, a national bestseller. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Cricket Man

Kenny Sykes is on a mission. He’s determined to make his mark somehow in his new town and his new school. In the meantime, he’s appointed himself the secret savior of the hundreds of crickets who seem bound to commit suicide by jumping into Kenny’s pool. Why he wants to save them, he’s not entirely sure. But once school starts again, Cricket Man finds that there are more important things that need saving. Namely, Jodie Poindexter beautiful junior, across the street neighbor, and, underneath her com posed facade, the most troubled and secretive girl in school.

Newbery Medal winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has crafted a funny and heartwarming story about how growing up is as much a choice as it is a given.

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June

When push comes to shove, two Kentucky girls find strength in each other. Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs, two girls from different parts of Kentucky, are participating in the first seventh grade student exchange program between their schools. The girls will stay at each other’s homes, attend school together, and record their experience in their journals. Catherine and her family have a beautiful home with plenty of space. Since Ivy June s house is crowded, she lives with her grandparents. Her Pappaw works in the coal mines supporting four generations of kinfolk. Ivy June can t wait until he leaves that mine forever and retires. As the girls get closer, they discover they re more alike than different, especially when they face the terror of not knowing what s happening to those they love most. From the Hardcover edition.

A Triangle Has Four Sides

Thirteen short stories of young people facing such problems as shyness, pregnancy, divorce, and jealousy.

An Amish Family

A view of the Amish today as seen through the lifestyle of a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, family.

How I Came to Be a Writer

Newbery Medalist Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s one hundred and more books are true to life, funny, and, most of all, well written you’d think that she doesn’t have to work at writing at all. But that’s not true. How I Came to Be a Writer is the story of one author’s beginnings successes and failures, reviews and rejection slips things that mark the stages of a writer’s life. Illustrated with photographs, and including samples of her earlier writing, this book will show you the inner workings of the writing process, from the spark of an idea to a book’s actual publication. This classic writer’s memoir has been revised and updated to include material on the writing of the Newbery winning Shiloh and its two sequels.

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