Product Description: Trevor has started his first job at Ashton's Fresh Marketplace, where someone has been tampering with the food. Cayenne has been sprinkled on cookies, garlic put in coffee, and plastic insects hidden in fruit displays to terrify customers...read more

Product Description: Short, high-interest novels for ages 10 to 14 Reading levels from grade 2.0 to 4.5 112-136 pages each Complete resource guide available Accelerated Reader selections Lexile levels available Free teachers' guides online for individual titles "These short, well-constructed books written by best-selling, award-winning authors are a gold mine for reluctant readers in middle school...read more

Product Description: Mystery stories with sports themes for ages 10+ Reading levels from grade 2.0 to 4.5 Interest level ages 10+ 144-192 pages each Accelerated Reader selections Lexile levels available Free individual teachers' guides online Praise for Boarder Patrol "Thomas has written a fast-paced story that never feels like it is being rushed...read more

While volunteering at the local zoo, Robyn, Nick and Trevor learn that grizzly bears are being poached and their gall bladders removed for use in alternative medicine. Always ready to solve a mystery, the kids set out to find the poachers. Bear is not only big game, they learn, but big money to poachers. The stakes are high and the suspects many, as the kids head into their most dangerous adventure yet.

Trevor, Robyn and Nick decide they have a mystery to solve when Trevor discovers a suspicious looking young man snooping around. They learn about missing research involving the use of carob beans to aid in cancer treatment-potentially valuable information. With a shady looking grad student, a bitter activist and an employee of a medical research firm to deal with, our amateur sleuths are faced with their greatest challenge yet.

Product Description: Aiden is the roughest player on his Calgary hockey team, as likely to be in the penalty box as on the ice. When he hits another player after a game, however, he's charged with assault and sentenced to one hundred hours of community service...read more

Determined to be chosen for a solo at the next synchronized swimming meet, eleven-year-old Gracie puts all of her time and effort into beating out the best swimmer on the team, alienating her friend Laura, who insists that the sport should be fun

Product Description: Josie's sister Melissa is too perfect, better than her in everything-except in the pool. Josie dreams of an Olympic swimming gold, and works hard with her Calgary swim team to achieve it. So when Melissa decides to join the team too, Josie is outraged and afraid that, once again, her sister will beat her...read more