by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for…
The Signalman: A visitor comes to a signal-box next to a railway tunnel. The Signalman tells the visitor about his important work. But the signalman also tells him a frightening story. Is the story…
When her mother dies, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt and uncle at Jamaica Inn. Strange things happen there at night. Mary is not easily frightened but she slowly discovers that her uncle is…
Charles Dickens' ability to observe and record human character and environment have placed him at the top table of English fiction writers alongside Shakespeare and Austen, and his titles are still…
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fa…