Best Selling Books by Joan Lowery Nixon

Happy living with her Texas grandmother and looking forward to celebrating a family Christmas, thirteen-year-old Maggie is devasted when she is summoned by her movie-director father to spend Christmas with him and her very young stepmother in California.

Moving and inspiring stories of the immigrant experience are offered up in this eOmni edition comprised of three novels from Joan Lowery Nixon’s historical fiction series, Ellis Island. Each story features a unique teenage girl’s perspective—one from Russia, one from Ireland, and one from Sweden. In Land of Hope, Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky settles with her family on the Lower East Side of New York and soon realizes that the roads are not paved with gold. In Land of Promise, Irish immigrant Rose Carney arrives in Chicago to a life filled with family responsibilities that impede on her dreams of independence. And in Land of Dreams, Swedish immigrant Kristin Swensen’s family lives on a farm in Minnesota, but her parents still cling to the life they’d known in Sweden. Follow their journeys as Rebekah, Rose, and Kristin—and their families— struggle to find the courage, faith, and resilience they’ll need to conquer the odds, find their independence, and realize the American dream.

Kleep and Till befriend a stranger who is seeking a way to free his people enslaved by Thrugg''s magic power.

Arriving for a vacation on Holiday Island, penguins Gus and Gertie stumble into a hotel full of Bad Guys and have a beautiful, valuable deep-sea pearl stolen from them.

Penguins Gus and Gertie take part in the Animals'' Winter Olympics.

Murder happens at a fund raiser at the Silver Ridge Hotel.

A plan to secretly help their community nearly backfires for a group of children when they find themselves involved with real gangland criminals.

It''s 1866 and 12-year-old Will Scott is not happy to be riding the orphan train. That''s because Will''s not really an orphan. He has a father--Jesse, a circus performer. But Will is no good at circus tricks, and Jesse tells him he''d be better off with a new family out West: "I''m giving you a better life, Will." Will is placed with the kindly Dr. and Mrs. Wallace. Assisting Dr. Wallace on his rounds of the local farms, Will finds to his surprise that he''s really good at something--helping people who are sick and hurt. But he still misses his father terribly. And then one night, Jesse''s circus comes to town.... "From the Hardcover edition.

When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children''s Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.

While working on a genealogy project for his seventh grade history class, Andy Bonner becomes determined to solve the mystery surrounding a distant relative who was accused of stealing the family fortune.

The Nic-Nac kids, who solve neighborhood mysteries together and write their own newspaper, the Nic-Nac News, investigate the case of The Great Giovanni, a mysterious man on their block.

A little boy assembles the clues to the mysterious prowler: he has a round nose, he rides a bicycle with a patched tire, and he squeaks instead of talks.

An old book of magic enables Magnolia Possum and her grandmother to experiment with spells while unaware that the pages containing instructions on how to undo them are missing.

Unable to sleep because of the alligator under her bed, Jill is finally rescued from her predicament by her Uncle Harry.

Sixteen-year-old Cassie, daughter of a famous comedienne, wishes she could spend more time with her sought-after mother and at the same time be recognized as a separate identity.

Eager to win the radio contest they have entered, the grand prize of which is a meeting with Luke Kane, the famous TV and recording star, the Nic-Nacs go celebrity-crazy.

A child imagines how things will be when he is eight, like his big brother.

Amateur detectives Susan and Mike figure out the identity of a mysterious clown on April Fools'' Day.

While preparing for a fund-raising circus, the Nic-Nacs investigate strange goings-on at the Blairs'' empty house, where they suspect a ghost is hiding.

Despite her interfering stage mother, seventeen-year-old Abby, a former child movie star, pursues her dream of becoming an actress in Hollywood during World War II.

A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.

A teenage girl is kidnapped, but when freed, is accused of masterminding the scheme to extort money from her wealthy grandmother.

Après un long voyage dans le Train des orphelins, les six enfants de Kelly sont adoptés par différentes familles du Missouri, sans savoir s''ils se reverront un jour. Frances, la plus âgée, raconte comment chacun affronte les séparations et les aventures de sa nouvelle vie. Danny et Pat sont recueillis par un couple qui les traite avec tendresse. Mais très vite Olga MacNair meurt. Danny, inquiet à l''idée de perdre Alfred qu''il aime comme son père, imagine de faire venir sa mère de New York et de la remarier à celui-ci. Même si tout ne se passe pas comme prévu, la famille de Kelly retrouvera le bonheur.

The Ellis Island Stories focus on the journeys, hardships, and rewards associated with the immigrant experience in the late 1800s and early 1900s. These stories are accurate fictionalized accounts of a pivotal period in U.S. history.

Hoping to join his father who is working in Mexico, eleven-year-old Joe stows away on a cruise ship by passing as a member of a large family on board.

David finds all sorts of missing items for other people but cannot locate his own possesions.

Brian, visiting his Irish relatives for the first time, tries to prove to his skeptical great-aunt that his great-grandfather''s tales of Irish lore and leprechauns are true.

Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.