Roger Roth

Even though Zach finds roller coasters scary, he rides one with Grandpa in an attempt to make him happy again after Grandma's death.

A spunky old woman's request and a rather unusual dream convince Crabby Clarence the sign painter to make the most glorious and magnificent sign of his career and then give it away.

When Archibald Peregrine Edmond Spring-Russell (Ape, for short) finds himself living alone for the first time in his life, he's finally free to do exactly what he pleases. What pleases this wealthy old English gentleman? Eggs. So Ape buys twelve brown hens to keep in his living room. But he doesn't stop there. Soon there are rabbits and guinea pigs in the dingy room, canaries in the music room, a noisy parrot in the kitchen and a puppy who seems...

A young girl's life with her father on their farm in England is changed when she befriends a talking hare that is really a shape-changing alien.

While on vacation in Scotland on her tenth birthday, Zeta meets a wise, kindly old merman who teaches her not only to swim, but also many, many more fascinating things.

Young Alison, dreaming of having her own wings, tries to find a way to fly.

A young aspiring detective narrates the known facts of an unsolved historical mystery--the discovery in a forest in India of two girls said to have been raised by wolves--and challenges the reader to come up with a solution.

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the infamous holiday.