Most Popular Books by Peg Kehret

A new Pete the Cat mystery in paperback for the first time! Alex and his friends witness a pig falling from a speeding red truck. Working with the police and an animal rescue group, the kids get permission to keep the pig. But after a local TV station runs a story about the rescue, the angry truck driver shows up at Alex''s house, determined to take the pig to slaughter. Who is this man? What is he hiding? Pete uses his skills to solve the mystery but, as usual, his humans don''t understand. When the dangerous situation turns deadly, can Pete save himself?

For speech contests, acting exercises, auditions, or audience entertainment.

Bone Breath to the rescue! Bone Breath is now called Dr. Dog! Rosie Saunders'' pet has become Oakwood Nursing Center''s favorite visitor. But one day when Rosie and her friend Kayo Benton are making a "pet therapy" visit to Oakwood, old Mr. Winters rambles on about "the mustache man" with a gun. They pay no attention...until the night''s news. A man in the house across from Oakwood has been shot -- and senile Mr. Winter is the only witness! The next day he''s missing. Rosie and Kayo race to find him. But suddenly, they''re prisoners themselves!

If there’s a mystery to be solved, Pete’s your man. Er, your cat. Pete’s a cat, specifically, Alex’s cat. And since Alex and his family moved into a new housing development, Pete is Alex’s only friend. Things start looking up for Alex when Rocky moves in next door. But Rocky isn’t very friendly, and Alex starts to suspect he’s hiding something. And when the neighborhood is terrorized by a rash of fires and vandalism, Pete knows that he’s got to investigate.

When Rosie, Kayo, and Lyle help with a play at the community theater, they accidentally uncover an art forgery operation.

In letters to an elderly pen pal, eleven-year-old Julie describes how her mischievous younger brother is always getting her in trouble, how she is dealing with painful juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and how she struggles to finish a fund-raising race on crutches.

Two dolls, Chip and Cookie, go on a journey to get chocolate chips from Sultan Semi-Sweet, and bring new friends back to Aunt Della''s house to share cookies and love.

Require no sets, props or costumes. Monologues: 7 for women, 9 for men, and 4 optional. Dialogues: 12 woman/woman and 8 man/man. Playlets: 20 with various cast.

When a nursing home resident witnesses a murder and is abducted by the killer, Care Club members Rosie and Kayo set out to rescue the old man.

Mountain terror! Rosie Saunders and Kayo Benton were in the woods, watching bald eagles through their binoculars, when they saw the red-jacketed man climbing below the nest. Suddenly he reached up, snatched an eaglet and scrambled down the mountain as two eagles screamed above. Rosie and Kayo rushed from their hiding place, desperate to follow the poacher and free the endangered eaglet. But soon they were lost in the dense wilderness of the Cascade Mountains -- tired, thirsty, and scared. That''s when they saw the cabin filled with stuffed birds -- and the poacher, who vowed to stop them in their tracks...

When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.

Corpus Christi

On their journey across the Brown Sugar Desert to get chocolate chips from Sultan Semi-Sweet, two cookie dolls teach those they meet about the magic of love.

Three stories center around Ellen Streater and her brother, Corey, as they find spooky trouble in a haunted house, an abandoned fair, and at the zoo.