DeFelice, Cynthia C

After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien.

Maggie's visit to Grampa's house in the country allows her to see everyday magic like newly hatched mayflies, baby birds, and ice falling from the summer sky.

After using a bottle of bath soap purchased from a door-to-door salesman, Casey finds cute green creatures in the tub with him and discovers that taking a bath can be fun.

Prompted by the ghost of a young Seneca Indian girl, twelve-year-old Allie and her friend Dub are determined that the historical pageant celebrating the founding of their town tells the truth about the fate of the Seneca people who lived there during the Revolutionary War.

When Allie is contacted by the ghost of a dog, she and Dub investigate the surly new boy at school and his father, who may be running a puppy mill, to see if they are involved.

In the mid-1800s, twelve-year-old Nathan journeys from his farm on the Ohio frontier to Western Pennsylvania to rescue a friend held captive by the owners of a freak show.

Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard.

After a thief steals Old Granny's beans while she is asleep at night, she gets some surprising help with catching him.

An ornery dead man refuses to stay in his coffin and causes a disturbance when the best fiddler in town comes to call on his widow.

Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.