To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would...

There is never a dull moment at school with Otis Spofford around. He is always brewing up a little excitement and that usually means trouble for everyone else, until Ellen Tebbits turns the tables on Otis.

When Shelley leaves Oregon to spend the winter in California, she feels she is the happiest girl in the world, for in her new high school, she meets Philip--the "only boy." A sixteen-year-old girl gains perspective into herself and her family when whe leaves her comfortable Oregon home and spends a year visiting with friends in California... She learns, in the midst of the friendly Michie family, that there are many ways to be oneself, and many different...

Young Whitey accompanies his uncle on a roundup and learns a lot of things that cowboys do.

Barbara helps her eighteen-year-old sister plan her wedding.

"Ramona's at the awkward, in-between age--too little to stay home alone after school when her mother is at work, but too big to enjoy playing with pesty Willa Jean at her sister's house. These days, all Ramona really wants is to twitch her nose and be her mother's little rabbit like she once was. Can't she be her mother's little girl forever?"--Back cover.

Amelia Bedelia follows to the letter the list of instructions for looking after the Lanes's baby.

Traces the history of man's study of earthquakes, discusses what is currently known about these tremors, and explores the possibility of their prevention.

As an eight-year-old genius in the sixth grade, Angeline is not too popular, but she tries to adjust to being different.

Text and illustrations outline the basics of ice skating from lacing up boots to performing advanced school figures.