New Releases by Joan Lowery Nixon

A child imagines how things will be when he is eight, like his big brother.

In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life.

A teenage girl is kidnapped, but when freed, is accused of masterminding the scheme to extort money from her wealthy grandmother.

Sarah risks her life to clear her murdered father''s name and expose big time criminal activity in the lawless mining town of Leadville. Sequel to "High Trail to Danger."

Eager to win the radio contest they have entered, the grand prize of which is a meeting with Luke Kane, the famous TV and recording star, the Nic-Nacs go celebrity-crazy.

The Nic-Nac kids, who solve neighborhood mysteries together and write their own newspaper, the Nic-Nac News, investigate the case of The Great Giovanni, a mysterious man on their block.

While preparing for a fund-raising circus, the Nic-Nacs investigate strange goings-on at the Blairs'' empty house, where they suspect a ghost is hiding.

Sixteen-year-old Cassie, daughter of a famous comedienne, wishes she could spend more time with her sought-after mother and at the same time be recognized as a separate identity.

Andrea didn''t want to accompany her aunt and a group of privileged people on a boat trip to the Bahamas to look at a valuable artifact. But she''s stuck there now, and angry when she realizes that this is a stolen artifact. All the adults want to own it, but Andrea knows it should be retumed to the Peruvian government. Then the object disappears... and someone is found murdered. Who will be next?

Despite her interfering stage mother, seventeen-year-old Abby, a former child movie star, pursues her dream of becoming an actress in Hollywood during World War II.

Brian, visiting his Irish relatives for the first time, tries to prove to his skeptical great-aunt that his great-grandfather''s tales of Irish lore and leprechauns are true.

Happy living with her Texas grandmother and looking forward to celebrating a family Christmas, thirteen-year-old Maggie is devasted when she is summoned by her movie-director father to spend Christmas with him and her very young stepmother in California.

A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.

A defensive twelve-year-old comes to understand her father, a busy Hollywood director planning to remarry, after she is exiled for the summer to the everyday life of her grandmother''s house in Houston.

An old book of magic enables Magnolia Possum and her grandmother to experiment with spells while unaware that the pages containing instructions on how to undo them are missing.

The séance started as a game, but it led to murder and terror for the people of a small east Texas community.

With a robot''s help two children search for a relative who has been kidnapped by the king on the planet Astarr and accused of making secret war weapons.

Kleep and Till befriend a stranger who is seeking a way to free his people enslaved by Thrugg''s magic power.

Shirley and Claude move across Texas in their covered wagon, looking for a peaceful place to settle down.

When Casey, an ardent 12-year-old feminist, sets out to help victims of discrimination, whether they want her help or not, she finds her ideas don''t always work as planned.

Gloria Chipmunk has a real problem to solve when she must stay home to take care of her little brother on the same day as the class play in which she has a part.

Amateur detectives Susan and Mike figure out the identity of a mysterious clown on April Fools'' Day.