Cynthia C. DeFelice

When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.

A retelling of an old tale in which a servant girl's new master insists she use uncommon names for common objects.

After a thief steals Old Granny's beans while she is asleep at night, she gets some surprising help with catching him.

The king offers his daughter's hand in marriage to the young man who can produce three perfect peaches.

Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking Allie's help.

While trying to earn money for a motor bike, fourteen-year-old Joe Pederson becomes involved with the Mexicans who work on his family's farm and develops a better relationship with his father.

After stealing a dead man's boots, a poor wandering bagpiper uses them to play a trick on an unfriendly farmer but then finds the trick turned back on him.

Patrick the city slicker, a new farm owner, falls prey to a practical joke but is able to turn the tables on his deceiver.