Best Selling Books by Jean Van Leeuwen

A boy and his family endure a difficult nine-week journey across the ocean and survive the first winter at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts.

In 1780 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah worries about her brother Ben, a colonial soldier being held prisoner by the British, and joins her family in rebuilding their home and preparing for Ben''s homecoming.

In comfortable residence at Macy''s during the Christmas season, Merciless Marvin the Magnificent and his gang are convinced that the store''s Santa Claus has been kidnapped and determine to save him.

A thirteen-year-old who suffers from several "beauty problems" improves her self-image after a brief summer romance.

Three mice who live in a department store are dismayed when they are accidentally shipped in a care package to a ten-year-old boy in a summer camp in Vermont, but after joining in a few of the activities they find that they like camp life.

Benny is not pleased when his new baby sister, Delilah, arrives at his house.

Miranda finds herself on the spot with her best friend and also with a new friend she meets while running. Sequel to "Marathon Miranda."

The Pioneer Daughters series is "a heartwarming portrait of a colonial girl and her family struggling to meet the challenges of pioneer life during the Revolutionary War." --Kirkus Reviews In Hannah of Fairfield, Hannah would rather be nursing a fragile spring lamb back to health than counting stitches. How can she concentrate when the war is so close? Everyone in Fairfield is doing all they can to help the colonial army. What can Hannah do to help?

When nothing she does seems to please her mother, Weezie decides to find her missing father.

When they hear that Mrs. Farmer is making soup, all the frightenened chickens run for their lives, but Mr. Farmer finds Little Chickie, who has a bad cold, and he takes her to the kitchen for some nice hot vegetable soup.

Five adventures of Oliver Pig with his family. Full color.

Five charming tales--humorous and insightful, about sibling love and rivalry.

Four stories about Amanda and Oliver Pig and their parents, who go outside to play after a big snowstorm.

After Sara''s plans to go swimming on the hottest day of the summer have to be cancelled, everything starts to go wrong.