Cynthia Voigt

When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, twelve-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the mummy disappears.

In a trip back in time, Brann meets his father as a ten-year-old and learns for the first time to love and understand him.

Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

Faced with the prospect of an unhappy life in the Kingdom, fourteen-year-old Birle accompanies a young runaway nobleman on a journey south and falls into slavery in the citadel of a cruel prince.

Six years after coming to live with their grandmother, James and Sammy Tillerman go in search of their long-lost father.

Two unpopular girls try to break into the seventh grade clique system, even though they're not really sure they want to be popular at all.