(Harper & Row, 1987)
Sixteen-year-old Bart Hawkins, star quarterback, learns that his house is haunted when Millicent, a sixteen-year-old “spokespook” for nine other ghosts, asks his help in ridding the place of a new and obnoxious poltergeist. With her help, Bart, who has been hiding his brains and love of reading, learns to be truthful about himself to his friends and his girlfriend.
(Scholastic, 1987)
Mitzi is afraid of everything until a “psychic” named Madame Blini tells her that she was Queen Boadicea in a past life.
(Harper & Row, 1986)
Lizzie’s latest obsession, in this sequel to Tarantulas on the Brain, is Robin Hood, leading to some misadventures at a Medieval Faire. In addition, to keep her best friend Tessa from going off to music school without her, Lizzie tries to learn the harp, with less than satisfactory results.
Illustrations by Miriam Nerlove.
(Holt, 1986)
Did the wealthy Carlotta Bucks really leave all her money to a cat? Sam will find out.
Illustrations by Andrew Glass.
(Atheneum, 1985)
Jessica’s dreams of a flying horse become all too real when she and her friend Jack discover a tapestry that comes to life. When Jack is abducted, Jessica must travel through time and space to free him. Published in Great Britain by Pan Macmillan.
(Holt, 1985)
Sam’s powerful sniffer helps her discover who’s been stealing the secret formulas in a cosmetics factory.
Illustrations by Andrew Glass.
(Words & Pictures/Quarto, 2020)
A picture book about how animals–and people–court.
Illustrated by Alette Straathof.
(Simon Spotlight/Simon&Schuster, 2020)A beginning reader about birds. Illustrated by Lucy Semple.
(Dial/Penguin, 2020)
Poems about imagination, celebration, and cake.
Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman.
(Simon Spotlight/Simon&Schuster, 2020)A beginning reader about bugs. Illustrated by Lucy Semple.
(Disney-Hyperion, 2019)
Poems about White House Pets.
Illustrated by Ryan McAmis.
(Simon Spotlight/Simon&Schuster, 2019)
A short book on how animals eat.
Illustrated by Kathryn Durst.
