New Releases by William Mayne

Fifteen-year-old Bob stumbles across some old secrets involving his family and a forty-year-old murder.

Fairmount Avenue should have had 2000 houses but everytime the children counted they could only find 1999. Where was the missing house?

A group of boys find a barge in an abandoned mill and try to make it seaworthy for a voyage to Holland. cf. Dust jacket.

Several English boys find the bones of a prehistoric monster underneath the sand which surrounds their town on the North Sea.

Set in the Yorskhire Dales the story charts the misadventures of young Dorothy and her friends Anthea and Jean. They like to go fishing in a local river and play on the stepping stones, though one day they get a little more than they bargained for.

Two Greek boys on an Aegean island have adventures as they follow a blue glass ball as it rolls through the cobbled streets of their village.

Hundreds of years ago many wagon loads of treasure belonging to the King disappeared in a small Welsh town. Now, while involved in the town''s excited preparations for the visit of the Prince, Patty discovers and alley leading from her basement to a buried street.

Peggy, her brother and their friend solve the mystery of an old woman''s past, proving to her that she was never a changeling child. Grades 6-7.

Hugh and Christopher discover a magic lake and the blue boat that came with Hugh''s wish. On their second voyage they meet a friendly goblin and decide to challenge the giant that lives on the island in the lake.

The first clue for finding the treasure was in the old signboard at the inn, while the last clue was somewhere inside a hill. It seem that the most important clue is a unicorn. Nan, Mary, Peter, and Adam search in their own ways. Mary, too young to bother with science and logic, prepares a grass rope to catch a unicorn the proper way.