Best Selling Books by Kristi Holl

This short, 90-day devotional for girls is written in an upbeat, lively, funny, and tween-friendly way, incorporating the graphic, fast-moving feel of a teen magazine. Illustrations.

Jim Parker has always been a rock. On that his wife Sofia has come to rely. But when Jim is assaulted at the school where he teaches and then is suspected of grade fixing, Sofia and her Pinot Painter friends must spring into action to save his reputation. Sofia is, for once, also teaching at the Cabot Falls, Vermont, high school, a two-week stint in the home economics classroom instructing students in the fine are of cake decorating and candy making. It will provide a perfect cover as she surreptitiously hunts for clues that will help clear Jim''s name. Sofia is sure Jim is innocent, but when Jim is suspended from his job, the situation becomes desperate. Meanwhile, Sofia is researching the eleventh block from the heirloom quilt bequethed to her by her grandmother. The clues indicate that the block may be connected with Charlotte Bronte, the famous author.

After inheriting the Carriage House Antiques shop and Sedgwick Manor, a nineteenth-century Colonial Revival, Maggie finally understands exactly what her beloved aunt meant when she said "antiques are filled with stories - secrets just waiting to be discovered." Maggie and the lively members of the historical society set out to unravel mysteries that have been tucked away for centuries in antiques, artifacts, and heirlooms as rare and unique as the tales they hold.

June''s foster grandparent turns out to be a crabby old man who doesn''t like children in general and June in particular.

Liz Eckardt, owner of the Olde Mansion Inn bed-and-breakfast in Indiana''s Amish country, is offering something new: a Shelock Holmes weekend complete with Victorian treats she baked on her own street and a mystery to solve. With all the hard work she''s put in to prepare, the affair should be a study in simple--until Liz deduces that something decidedly illogical is going on. As part of the fun, Liz has enlisted the help of an amateur magician to pickpocket the participants then give the items to Liz for safekeeping. But, when more possessions start disappearing, even though her visitors surely locked their doors, Liz can''t help but wonder if her friend has embarked on a real life of crime. Is he the mastermind behind the thefts?

June finds sharing a house with her mother and her foster grandfather requires a difficult adjustment to his forgetfulness and his crabby remarks to her junior high school friends, but she also loves him as a family member.

"Christmas bells are ringing. Maggie and her friends are putting on a production of A Christmas Carol. Kids are running wild, the leading man and director are at odds. Who is the villain in town trying to ruin the production?" -- Amazon.com.

An unknown blackmailer threatens Kate and her school friends until she decides to face danger head on.

A Union soldier is shot and then held as a suspected deserter during the Civil War. A wife, desperate to reach her husband and prove that he''s not guilty of wartime treason, leaves her two young children in the care of a friend to take a position as a nurse in the nation''s capital. There her life will cross paths with an American literary icon. But how do these events, 150 years in the past, tie in with Sofia Parker in modern day Cabot Falls, Vermont? Perhaps the priceless heirloom quilt bequeathed to her by her grandmother holds the link. But even as Sofia attempts to track down the connection to the historic period in our nation''s history, she finds herself coincidentally helping with a Civil War reenactment near St. Albans, Vermont. Sofia'' fledgling catering business has been contracted to recreate a tea at the event. But the festive affair turns sinister when Sofia''s son Matthew goes missing and is apparently abducted.

Alex Burton, who feels invisible in her large family, enters a mural contest at the public library in the hopes the her family will realize her artistic talent and give her some attention

Anxious to prove his competence as a guide to his ranger father, fifteen-year-old Brad is appalled when, after being left in charge of a tour of Indian burial mounds, a five-year-old boy disappears, the victim of an apparent kidnapping.

Sixth grader Julie dislikes the sacrifices she has to make to ease her family''s serious financial problems, which may cause them to lose their farm, but her faith in God helps her through the situation.

"Kaylee from the Flower Patch is busy as a bee. Her only employee decides to take some time off. So Kaylee asks her friend Amanda and her daughter to come help out. All goes well until Amanda is arrested. Some jewelry is missing from the jewelry store and one piece is found in Amanda''s home." --

When her grandmother comes to stay for a month and volunteers at her school library, twelve-year-old Julie has to deal with sharing her room and being embarrassed by her grandmother''s somewhat flamboyant presence at school.

When serious financial difficulties endanger the future of the Mississippi steamboat tourist attraction run by her family and friends, thirteen-year-old Nikki singlehandedly pursues various schemes to make money, discovering the hard way that there is more to life than worrying.

When twelve-year-old Julie McGregor''s Laurel school merges with the school in nearby Elmwood, and the kids from the schools don''t get along, she has trouble keeping her friend Monica while trying to make new friends from Elmwood.