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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
And Maggie makes three	Joan Lowery Nixon	Twelve-year-old Maggie, living with her grandmother in Houston, joins the drama club at school, wins a part in a play, begins to make friends, and learns to deal with feelings of loneliness, selfishn…	OL137725W
Bigfoot makes a movie	Joan Lowery Nixon	Young Bigfoot's encounter with a movie-making crew who think he is an actor in costume is very enjoyable--for a while.	OL137727W
A dangerous promise	Joan Lowery Nixon	In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Second Kansas Infantry in the Union army as drummer boy…	OL137730W
Don't Scream	Joan Lowery Nixon	When two new boys come to her school, Jess thinks things are really looking up, but she doesn't know their real identities or if she can trust them.	OL137734W
The Easter mystery	Joan Lowery Nixon	When Susan and Mike suspect that thieves may be plotting the theft of a valuable Easter egg, they organize their neighbors to ward off the crooks.	OL137735W
Fat chance, Claude	Joan Lowery Nixon	A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.	OL137737W
The happy birthday mystery	Joan Lowery Nixon	Two amateur sleuths track down Mrs. Pickett's missing birthday cake.	OL137740W
High Trail To Danger	Joan Lowery Nixon	This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL137743W/High_Trail_To_Danger.	OL137743W
John's story, 1775	Joan Lowery Nixon	In Williamsburg in 1775, as events threaten to plunge the colonies into war with Britain, eleven-year-old John feels caught between the revolutionary sentiments of his older brother and his father's …	OL137745W
Maria's story, 1773	Joan Lowery Nixon	In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish official reports and announcements of t…	OL137749W
Nightmare	Joan Lowery Nixon	Emily has never fit in her overachieving family. Instead of getting straight As, she sits in the back row and hides behind her hair. As a result, her parents have enrolled her at Camp Excel--an acade…	OL137751W
The Other Side of Dark	Joan Lowery Nixon	Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.	OL137752W
The Seance	Joan Lowery Nixon	The séance started as a game, but it led to murder and terror for the people of a small east Texas community.	OL137754W
Star baby	Joan Lowery Nixon	Despite her interfering stage mother, seventeen-year-old Abby, a former child movie star, pursues her dream of becoming an actress in Hollywood during World War II.	OL137758W
Casey and the Great Idea	Joan Lowery Nixon	When Casey, an ardent 12-year-old feminist, sets out to help victims of discrimination, whether they want her help or not, she finds her ideas don't always work as planned.	OL137765W
Gus & Gertie and the Lucky Charms	Joan Lowery Nixon	Penguins Gus and Gertie take part in the Animals' Winter Olympics.	OL137766W
Land of promise	Joan Lowery Nixon	In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement i…	OL137768W
A Candidate For Murder	Joan Lowery Nixon	Cary finds her life in danger when she uncovers a plot to sabotage her father's political campaign for governor of Texas.	OL137775W
The Trap	Joan Lowery Nixon	Sixteen-year-old Julie agrees to spend the summer at her great-aunt and uncle's ranch in Texas, but gets more than she bargained for when valuables suddenly start disappearing and it appears that the…	OL137780W
The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore	Joan Lowery Nixon	A teenage girl is kidnapped, but when freed, is accused of masterminding the scheme to extort money from her wealthy grandmother.	OL137782W