Books by Dennis Haseley

Although Charles grows too old for conversations and adventures with a toy soldier, baker, and airplane man, he hopes that his old friends might take his new baby brother to a far-off land one day.

When his beloved is captured by Steel McSteal, a shy moose summons his courage and, with the help of an invisibility potion, sets off to rescue her in New York City.

The work of Mole the photographer is cherished by his neighbors, but he decides that he must take a trip to discover the something that is missing in his photographs.

Upon discovering that he can enter paintings and speak with the people in them, a twelve-year-old boy sets out on a journey of discovery that ultimately leads to his own forgotten past.

During the Great Depression, while their father is away looking for work, eight-year-old Patrick and thirteen-year-old Roy create a machine to help their mother make ends meet, even as she is helping tramps.

On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget. The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house. And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose. A happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death. A loving marriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrives—a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fall in love. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family's dreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them. The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away. And it tells a haunting and beautiful truth about the unpredictability—and the wonder—of life.

A young boy, who likes to collect old and discarded materials, finds the remnants of a kite, repairs it, flies it, and in the process kindles a friendship with another boy.

Sixth-grader Donald wants revenge against Harold, a lonelyand eccentric classmate who accidentally injured Donald's dog, but as he gets more involved in his plotting, Donald's anger is gradually replaced by more complicated emotions.

During the Franco-Prussian War, Léon Gambetta escapes from Paris in a balloon and organizes an army in the French countryside to fight against the Prussian invaders.

After years of research in Switzerland, a slightly mad scientist returns to his quiet Midwestern hometown determined to rescue it from what he considers to be the noxious effects of gravity.

An allegory of emotional growth and human kinship in which Ghost Catcher solves people's problems and they in turn help him.

Children wake in the night and visit the unusual market where thieves sell their stolen goods.

Jamie's lonely life with his aunt and uncle in rural West Virginia changes when Grandpa comes to visit and teaches him to make shadow pictures.

As a child walks in the woods with his father, he seems to become other animals enjoying the freedom of nature.

In an attempt to break away from the demands of family and school, sixteen-year-old James, an aspiring artist, sets out to create a perfect $500 bill.

A shepherd boy seeks help in the cave of snores when bad magic takes away his father's snores which protect the sheep and other shepherds.