Madlenka plays soccer in her city neighborhood--with the mailbox, a dog, a parking meter, and some cats. Includes a brief history of soccer and words for soccer around the world.

Grady and his father inherit the town oddball's old tapestry and discover it is a highly coveted treasure map.

When Claude, a small, plump dog, and his friend, Sir Bobblysock, visit the city Claude heroically, if accidentally, stops a thief, then, when Sir Bobblysock becomes ill, Claude rushes him to a hospital and is mistaken for a doctor.

At the same moment that Jodie's baby brother takes his first step, a city's worth of moments unfold.

Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her...

A family in crisis, a town torn apart, and the boy who holds the secret has been cocooned in a coma for ten years.

With its cookie cutter houses, welcoming committees, and all-town competitions, Normal, Michigan, seems like a perfect fit for nine-year-old new resident Molly, the only non-magical person in her family.

Maisie is asked to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a village in Kent during the hop picking season. Mysterious fires erupt in the village and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and Maisie needs to use her skills to solve one of her most intriguing cases yet.

Summary: Catherine Linton, society editor for the newspaper in a small Southern town, whose parents were killed in a mysterious "accident," finds a body in a shack and discovers deadly secrets in the town she thought she knew.

When one of the most important paintings of the century, The Barns of Lumby, is stolen, a media frenzy descends on the little town.