Most Popular Books by Willo Davis Roberts

A young girl and her neighbor are kidnapped during a burglary gone awry in this hair-raising and fast-paced thriller from three-time Edgar Award–winning author Willo Davis Roberts. Sixth-grader Kaci Drummond longs for excitement and to be noticed just as her sister Jodie is for dancing, or her brother Jeff is for playing the piano. Shortly after her family moves to a new house, Kaci returns home in the middle of the school day and stumbles upon a burglary. The robbers kidnap her, and when a nosy neighbor suspects that something is wrong and tries to help, they take her as well. Kaci quickly discovers that the elderly woman not only has some good ideas, but also helps them both keep up their courage. Can the two hostages band together to escape their captors?

No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive New York City private school.

A baby sitter and her three willful charges make a formidable team to outwit their surprised kidnappers.

Fourteen-year-old Nikki has trouble accepting her new stepmother Crystal, and the problem grows worse when they visit the Northern California house where Crystal lived as a child and experienced some horrible event that she is trying to keep secret.

Laurie is physically abused by her mother; can she escape, and will anyone believe her story''.

When a falling body strikes Nick''s car as he drives under an overpass, the police call the man''s death a suicide, but Nick suspects murder and finds his life in danger when he tries to investigate.

After deaths of her parents, Teddi finds some stability when she moves in with Mamie, her good-hearted nextdoor neighbor--until the arrival of a woman claiming to be the pregnant wife of Mamie''s son who recently died in a plane crash.

This bestselling classic mystery from Willo Davis Roberts about a boy who witnesses a murder is “taut with suspense” (Booklist, starred review). Though Rob saw Mrs. Calloway fall to her death, strangled by the leather strap of her binoculars, he wants to believe that it was an accident. He wants to pretend he didn’t see the hands that pushed her out of her window. Then a flowerpot almost falls on him. And three bullets just miss him. And someone tries to poison his food. When he tries to tell his family that he thinks there has been a murder, they are too busy with his sister’s wedding to care. Will Rob be the murderer’s next victim?

Living next door to a darkened amusement park, brothers Rick and Kenny become involved in a mystery that starts when their mother is kidnapped.

After the death of his little sister, Marc''s life begins to fall apart--his parents divorce, his mother comes under the influence of a pushy insurance agent, and Marc is sent to a camp for socially maladjusted youths.

When her father disappears mysteriously on a trucking job, eleven-year-old Buddy moves in with relatives she hardly knows and finds herself in a dysfunctional family with secrets about the past.

From three-time Edgar Award–winning author Willo Davis Roberts comes the “instantly compelling” (Kirkus Reviews) classic mystery, originally published as Buddy Is a Stupid Name for a Girl, about a young girl who unravels her family’s deepest, darkest secrets. All Buddy ever wanted was a normal family. But with her mother dead, her father missing, and her brother on the road searching for him, Buddy has a hard time believing it will ever happen. Instead she’s living with relatives she hardly knows who resent her for reasons she can’t figure out. They think everything about her is strange, especially her name. Despite all this, Buddy clings to the hope that her father is out there, somewhere, and that her brother will find him so they can be a family again. Until then will Buddy find a way to accept her new life and figure out the mystery behind her relatives’ disapproving stares?

Fourteen-year-old Rebel has toned down her rebellious streak, but when faced with a challenge, she still feels the need to confront it head-on, despite the opinions of others.

Mandy''s life changes forever when her ten-year-old twin sister eats a hamburger tainted with E coli and dies.

A 10-year-old girl, who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that there are others like her.

During a frightening trip spent in airplanes and airports between Seattle and San Francisco, three cousins get involved with sinister characters, identical flight bags, and an assault on an innocent old lady.

First eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them.

"A boy who does odd jobs in an apartment house becomes involved with a gang of arsonists employed by the building''s owner, who plans to destroy it in order to collect the insurance."--Provided by publisher.

A girl searches for the truth when two of her classmates are caught in the crosshairs of a murder mystery in this Edgar Awardu00ad–winning novel from Willo Davis Roberts. Cici expected the summer to be special. She had no idea it would change her life forever. Two kids, two lives, ruined before they even began. One, a girl, dead—strangled in an empty cabin. The other, a boy, spending the rest of his life in jail for her murder. To Cici, it all seems so unreal. These were kids she had grown up with, whom she had known. She can’t believe Brody Shurik could have murdered Zoe Cyrek. Something’s going on here, and Cici’s going to find out exactly what it is. But Cici has an even harder time believing what she uncovers. Could the murderer really be someone close to her? Maybe even a member of her family? And if Cici’s on the right track, could she become the murderer’s target?

When Danny goes to a small village to live with his aunt and grandfather, it soon becomes apparent that he and his dog are afflicted with the Minden Curse.

To Grandmother''s House We Go is Willo Davis Roberts'' riveting tale of intrigue and mystery. To avoid foster home care while their mother is recuperating from illness, three children run off to the home of a grandmother they have never seen, where they find a cold reception and a terrible secret.

When Alex and his friends try the spells in an old book, things don''t happen quite as they''d thought, but they decide to try the bully spell on the school bully anyway.

What they thought would be a dream vacation turns into a nightmare for twelve-year-old Lewis and his twin sister Alison, when theyaccompany their irresponsible new neighbors on a trip to Yellowstone Park and are chased by two mysterious men.

What they thought would be a dream vacation turns into a nightmare for twelve-year-old Lewis and his twin sister Alison, when they accompany their irresponsible new neighbors on a trip to Yellowstone Park and are chased by two mysterious men. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Secrets at Hidden Valley As Steffi steps off the bus, the only thing she knows for sure is that this is the last place she wants to be. But she''s stuck here, somewhere in northern Michigan, about to stay with a grandfather she''s never met, just so her mother can shoot some bad movie. Until that wraps up, Steffi''s got nowhere else to go. But Hidden Valley, the trailer park her grandfather runs, is more intriguing than Steffi could have imagined. All the residents seem to be hiding some deep, dark secret, even her grandfather. Why else would they choose to live in the woods, so far from any town? And why else would they be so afraid of strangers? Steffi decides to investigate. But what she learns about the residents of Hidden Valley isn''t half as surprising as what she discovers about herself along the way.

When the Minden Curse involves Danny with the old Caspitorian house, he discovers the secret of its hauntedness and lost treasure and helps foil a schemer who wants both the house and treasure.

En route to stay with her uncle in Texas in the late 1860s, twelve-year-old Jo experiences a stagecoach robbery and becomes involved with a reluctant young outlaw aiming to change his ways.

A unique, much-needed resource guide for young diabetics. "For young diabetics, it is bibliotherapy. For non-diabetics, it is informative about a silent, potentially life-threatening illness and its treatment".--School Library Journal. Full color.

Steve''s investigation of a haunted house that seems to be in use involves him with criminals who think he knows too much.

Eddie, an orphan, hopes the puppy he finds in the orphanage is a fairy godpuppy that will bring him a family and a real home.