Mitchell, Marianne

The townspeople of Dry Gulch ridicule Ebenezer Overall for his pack rat ways until a flood makes public the value of his stash.

Thirteen-year-old Crystal, confined to a wheelchair after being injured in a car accident in which her father was killed, begins to suspect there are forces conspiring against her when the eccentric older woman who is caring for her in her mother's absence goes missing.

Twelve-year-old Haley Sparks was not looking forward to cleaning cabins and washing dishes at her Uncle Jake's bed and breakfast cabins, but when an arsonist burns one of the cabins Haley sets out to find the culprit.

With a "Hot diggety-dog!" and a wave of his white sombrero, cowboy Joe Cinders gets the girl in this Southwestern retelling of the Cinderella story.