Stephanie True Peters

Now playing on different teams, twelve-year-old cousins--and best friends--Carter and Liam must compete against each other at the Little League World Series.

With help from her brother and parents, Beth takes very good care of her new kitten, Rumble Tum, but when she closes her eyes for a moment one stormy day, her beloved pet disappears.

When Jason, the team clown, finds that he will be taking the regular goalie's place in an upcoming soccer game, he embarks on a determined plan to learn everything he can about goalkeeping.

Anya and her older sister, Marina, used to be an unbeatable catcher and pitcher duo on the Geckos, a slow-pitch softball team, but now that Anya has joined Marina on the girls' fast-pitch team, they struggle to get along. Anya can't stand Marina's know-it-all attitude, and Marina thinks Anya doesn't take things serious enough. When their team's main catcher goes to play with another team for a few games, Anya steps in to be their back-up catcher....

When Ted's twin sister Lisa, a fullback on the 'Cats soccer team, gets attention for her special move on the field, Ted determines to come up with an outstanding play also.

Describes the 1347-1351 outbreak of plague in Europe, known as the Black Death, which killed one out of three people and changed the course of European history.

"An epic sleepover reveals a wolfish mystery when twelve-year-old Emma discovers an antique book and must outwit its owner, the mastermind Scaremaster, and stop a werewolf in her tracks"--

Knowing that the mountain trails are unsafe for bicycles due to fallen trees and other obstacles, Jonas helps organize a clean-up crew in early spring, but when he hears someone else biking on the trail he cannot resist a ride of his own.

Describes the 1918 influenza pandemic, from how World War I soldiers spread the disease to recent scientific efforts to understand the virus that took between twenty and forty million lives worldwide.