Best Selling Books by Jane Thayer

"Discusses characterization, conflict, setting, genre, audience level, the role of editors and literary agents, the preparation of manuscripts, and royalties, advances, and rejections" --provided by Amazon.

Gus determines that ghosts needn''t always wear white.

An elf tries to convince the little girl he lives with that he really exists.

Skunk leads the animals in a search for Squirrel who has disappeared from the garden and woods.

A young robot finds his vocation in a bakery and earns a baker''s hat as the result of his devoted work.

Ginnie and Geneva go into the baby-sitting business by starting their own day nursery for toddlers. Grade 4-5.

A friendly ghost finds himself in a dilemma when a new owner decides to tear down his home

Uses riddles and phrases to show the wide variety of meanings of the word "hand."

Tale of a fun-loving wolf who suddenly finds that he has grown up without realizing it.

Emerald liked to watch television and sleep in a bed, but he also liked to eat catnip and chase mice. Was he a cat or people?

A quail raised in a home does not enjoy attention given to a baby squirrel or a visiting grandson, and when the college son comes home, she becomes so jealous she decides to leave and join the wild birds.

The people try to outwit the clever raccoon who is robbing their garden of delicious fresh corn on the cob.

In this family story, Chris becomes something more than just Cathy''s little sister and discovers she has a life of her own. Grades 4-5.

Although Charlie, the chipmunk, was furious with the couple who invaded his territory, his curiosity helped him make friends with them.

Sandy loses a favorite balloon by popping it accidentally. He then goes shopping with his mother and is given 17! They keep him off the ground, but Sandy refuses to let go of the balloons until he''s up too high. He must then break them one by one in order to land safely.

This research addresses the problems experienced by the autonomous mobile robot, Yamabico- 11, with its ultrasonic sonar system. It explains the basics of acoustic theory as related to Yamabico- 11 and explains the sources of limitations imposed on Yamabico- 11 by the physical nature of the problem. This paper documents the basic characteristics of the sonar hardware and examines causes of sonar range errors. Finally, this research leads to improvements of the current sonar system to provide better directional coverage through a new sonar configuration.

Wanting only to get back to his home on the farm, a mouse goes from floor to floor in a luxury apartment building creating panic as he searches for a way out.