Marsha Qualey

Gracie LaRoo's synchronized swimming team trades out water for snow. But Gracie is afraid of heights and has never been on skiis. Can she overcome her fears in time to shine, or is this trip going downhill fast?

The Water Sprites are supposed to perform their medal-winning synchronized swimming routine aboard a cruise ship, but everything goes wrong when the piglets aboard start throwing things at the swimmers--so Gracie enlists the help of famous Rita Sinclair and her dancers to help impose order on the unruly passengers.

Gracie the pig has a part in a movie with with Tilda Swinetune, the champion swim racer and movie star, but she is upset when she realizes she is just a stunt double--however a small change in the script makes her able to do that and also fulfill her dream with a part of her own.

Beatrice "Bumble B." Flinn loves the farmers' market, where her parents sell honey, and this time she is going to help out at her friend Kalia's family flower stand, but Bumble B is rather clumsy and easily distracted, so things do not go as well as she hoped--but in the end she finds a way to put her skills as an artist to good use.

Beatrice "Bumble B." Flinn's usual Halloween costume is a bee, but this year she has decided to add a long cape and become Super Bee, but she is having a little trouble figuring out just what her superpowers are--until a sudden downpour gives her the chance to put her cape to good use.

Seventeen-year-old Arden Munro has been raised by her older brother, Scott, ever since the death of their parents 10 years earlier. He has been her only family. But now Scott too is dead--or so believe the local police and everyone in Arden's community. Arden, however, is convinced that Scott has staged his snowmobile accident and purposely disappeared. She will search until she finds him. As Arden obsessively continues her detective hunt, she is...

Border Baker thinks he's perfectly content in New Mexico, his home for the last three years. But when his father inherits his childhood home in Minnesota and decides to move them again, Border feels he's being held prisoner and force-fed a hometown. People in the town haven't forgotten that his dad fled to Canada rather than serve in the Army in Vietnam, and Border becomes a target of their simmering resentment.

Several hundred women are about to converge on tiny Pepin, Minnesota, to celebrate the birthday of Ida May Turnbull, the long-dead author of a beloved series of children's books. When the "Little Girls" gather in Pepin, one woman finds life has changed forever. Leigh Burton is a disgraced journalist who was stripped of a Pulitzer for fabricating details in a few newspaper stories. In the years since, Leigh has been scratching out a living as a freelancer,...

"Beatrice "Bumble B." Flinn is funny, smart, and creative. Beatrice is also very clumsy and tends to bumble her way through life, which is how she got the nickname Bumble B. But clumsiness doesn't damper her confidence! Every day she tackles a self-assigned mission, and every mission is a new opportunity for success."--Page [4] of cover.