Best Selling Books by Steven Kroll

Wishing to control the outcome of her father''s hat contest, because she knows she must marry the winner, Princess Abigail accepts the help of a strange green lizard from the forest.

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Every August, Patrick and his parents visit his grandparents in Maine. But this summer, Patrick is really excited. He''s spending the first week in the country alone with his grandparents while his parents attend a convention. He is even more thrilled when Granddad reveals a surprise-Patrick''s very own tree house.

What makes Nina mad? Lots of things—lots of little, everyday things, frustrations that all children will recognize. But Nina knows how to speak her mind and that makes her feel much better. In a series of humorous vignettes, Hilary Knight, the artist who brought the enormously successful Eloise to life, applies his magic to a text by veteran children''s book writer Steven Kroll, and brings to life a spunky character who will show young readers how to articulate their feelings.

Unlucky Harold, for whom every day is Friday the 13th, finally has a change of fortune.

When his clumsiness causes problems for his small neighbors, Jeremy, a friendly giant, decides to run away.

Recounts the "real story" of the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims pursued such tough turkeys for dinner that they had to settle for squash.

Muck the monster reluctantly attends his friends Slug''s birthday party.

Amelia adopts a stray bull terrier who barks a lot but earns her family''s gratitude by solving a mystery.

In a small town in Maine, a sex-obsessed teenager named Jason gets involved with a mystery and learns that humor and intelligence are as important as physical attributes.

From the little bits of information that he has gathered, Newsman Ned decides that the new owners of the house on Grove Street must be a circus family.

Depicts a typical day, from opening, through breakfast, lunch, and dinner, to closing, of a busy luncheonette.

Eric doesn''t want to play George Washington in the school play because he has stage fright, but when Marty the class bully gets the part instead, there''s trouble ahead.

When Newsman Ned takes off to get the story of a pie robbery at Cathy''s Luncheonette, he notices a number of law violations along the way.

Thomas is delighted to draw Gretchen''s name to be the recipient of his valentine at school, but then he worries that she does not like him.

Phil is the new kid in town and he really wants to get on the baseball team, the famous Raymondtown Rockets.

T. J. Folger brags he is the greatest thief in the world until a mystery thief teaches him a lesson.

Sports adventure story.

A high school junior at a summer camp for boys comes to realize some of the happenings that are passed off as pranks are in fact vicious attacks on the "weaker" boys.

Wishing to control the outcome of her father''s hat contest, because she knows she must marry the winner, Princess Abigail accepts the help of a strange green lizard from the forest.

While divorce and remarriage have given Annie four grandmothers, entertaining them all at once presents some problems; but, love of their little granddaughter draws them together in the end.