Betsy Cromer Byars
6) Dead letter
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Herculeah Jones and her best friend Meat set out to crack the case of the mysterious note which she finds in the lining of a second-hand coat.
11) Death's Door
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Super-sleuth Herculeah Jones's investigation of the attempted murder of Meat's uncle leads them to a mystery bookstore named Death's Door.
14) Tornado
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As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
15) Ant plays bear
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Ant and his brother play a game, discuss growing up, hear a scary noise, and learn to be friends.
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Junior Blossom is inventing again, but this time no one cares enough to ask about the secret his "KEEP OUT" signs conceal. A remark of his mother's brings Junior's world crashing down, as she tells his sister Maggie how proud her father would have been of her. Junior's grief makes him the focus of everyone's concern, and getting his newest invention, a flying saucer, off the ground becomes a family project.
19) Trouble River
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When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for himself and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.
20) The TV kid
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To escape failure, boredom, and loneliness, a young boy plunges with all his imagination into the world of television.