Barbara M Joosse

Two boys discover that their mother loves them equally but in different ways.

When a Masai father in Africa answers his son's questions, the boy learns that his father's love for him is unconditional.

"When a lonely dragon follows a trail of princess tears, a beautiful friendship is born. They march and sing, roar and whisper, hide and seek, then settle into snug companionship at bedtime"--

Harriet gives examples of polite words and expressions to use in various social situations to make them more pleasant.

In the dead middle of summer, the Scarface Detectives investigate their creepiest case yet when a mysterious client sends them to Oak Hill Cemetery, where Loonie Loraine is buried.

A starving cat who has been living in the wild seeks food and shelter for her kittens and herself by going to the home of a learning disabled boy.

Nikolai, a bear who lives in the orphanage in Novosibirsk, Russia, does not seem to fit in until the day some visitors arrive from America.

Mimi and her little brother Joe escape from home and the city's summer heat to read and dream about princesses and dinosaurs in the cool, quiet library.

As the schooner "Mary Ludwig" flounders in Lake Michigan during a storm in 1895, fishermen on the beach send a horse, trained to haul boats in and out of the lake, to rescue the shipwrecked crew. Based on a true story.

Snowed in after sharing Christmas with Grandma, a houseful of relatives settles in for the night.