New Releases by Page McBrier

When Fletcher Perry mysteriously wins the bid for a genuine mummy's coffin at a magician's tag sale, he decides to use it as a prop in his upcoming magic show at school. Then Fletcher and his new assistant, the mega-popular Arielle Torres, find themselves unexpectedly transported via the coffin back to King Tut's temple, where Fletcher's modern-day magic tricks attract the attention of the young king's guardians. Thinking Fletcher must be a powerful sorcerer, the guardians press him into service as the king's special protector. Fletcher and Arielle, however, know that Tut is destined to die in his teens, and so the race is on for them to decipher the message on a mysterious amulet, locate their missing coffin, and get home before Fletcher's magic is revealed to be just so much hocus-pocus. This action-packed adventure is unstoppable. Abracadabra Tut pulls readers into an exciting journey filled with stage magic, mystery, chariots, cobras, and historical intrigue.

"One Cow and Counting" combines the clear and compelling prose of award winning children's author Page McBrier with the rich, fantastic illustrations and textual interjections of widely-published illustrator Regan Dunning. Commemorating Heifer International's 70th Anniversary, the duo have created a book that enlightens and entertains at each new reading. Young and old alike will revel in the layers of humor and information surrounding the tale of an organization making a difference in our world. Business-suited cows and goats promote a career in cheese-making. A water buffalo, the "living tractor" of Southeast Asia, drives... a tractor. "Baconophobia" is finally explained. All this and a lot more fun await you in "One Cow and Counting."

This illustrated book offers the true story of how a poor African girl was able to attend school after receiving a goat as a gift through a special international project and then sell its milk to get the money needed to buy her books. Reprint.

Oliver Moffitt thinks running his own pet-care business will be no problem. After all, he's read plenty books about animals. Then Oliver gets his first customer, Bruiser, an enormous dog with a nose for trouble.

Animals are Oliver Moffitt's business, and there is no pet-care job he can't handle. So it should be no problem for him to take care of Princess Fluffy, a pampered cat. But when Princess Fluffy gets loose and disappears inside a spooky, boarded-up house, Oliver calls on his friends to help him find the missing cat.

As a reluctant member of a Christmas-obsessed family, Megan has a bad case of the "bah humbugs" until she befriends a runaway boy hiding out in the store where she works as Santa's elf.

The Treehouse times staff are decided to focus on Earth Day by participating in Operation Clean Stream. What the girls find are dead fish floating on the river's surface and a biologist busy collecting specimens. All the girls need are the facts and figures on the levels of mercury found in the fish and they can let the law take care of the culprits.

Since nobody seems ready to admit the school has a rodent problem, the girls decide they'll have to do some undercover work to get the straight story.

The new paper called the Kirkridge Press is printing gossip, while the Treehouse Times is determined to print news, hoping it can stay in business.

A bad review from the paper's food expert spells financial disaster for the newspaper.

Twelve-year-old Amy, living in a suburb of St. Louis, finds both her leadership on the community newspaper and her relationship with her best friend challenged by a girl visiting from California.

Meet the young reporters as they print the first edition of the Treehouse times, with offices in Amy's treehouse.

Even though they have been told that the field where Erin Valdez and her friends play kickball may be sold to a fast-food chain, someone is anonymously fixing up the field with new bases, a bench and lots of expensive equipment, which makes this look like a big story for the investigative reporters of The Treehouse Times.

As Valentine's Day approaches Amy Evans is up to her ears in trouble. Not only does she have a secret admirer who may be one of the biggest creeps in school, but the landlord of her "adopt-a-grandparent" is threatening to toss the poor old lady out into the streets.

Oliver's pet-care service faces its greatest challenge when he is asked to watch a camel being kept illegally in a fenced-in back yard and it escapes into the streets.

With clear instructions from his mother to take only one petcare job for the summer, Oliver secretly fills the garage with animals that he tries to take care of without her knowing.

Oliver takes in a wild duck with a broken wing and hopes to keep it as a pet after it has healed.