Betsy Cromer Byars

A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

May-May and Rose, the singing, dancing Golly sisters, travel west by covered wagon, entertaining people along the way.

As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.

Ant and his brother play a game, discuss growing up, hear a scary noise, and learn to be friends.

In the aftermath of a big flood in Alderson County, the Blossom family continues coping in their rare family style.

Junior Blossom is inventing again, but this time no one cares enough to ask about the secret his "KEEP OUT" signs conceal. A remark of his mother's brings Junior's world crashing down, as she tells his sister Maggie how proud her father would have been of her. Junior's grief makes him the focus of everyone's concern, and getting his newest invention, a flying saucer, off the ground becomes a family project.

A sixth-grade boy deals with the prospect of a new baby brother and a long-distance love relationship.

In continued adventures, May-May and Rose take their traveling road show to more audiences.

A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts.

Looking after an eccentric scientist's greenhouse doesn't seem any stranger than the other odd jobs taken by Mozie and his partner Battie--until Mozie discovers a large, mummy-shaped pod on one of the plants.