Tracy Barrett

What really happened after the clock struck midnight? Jane Montjoy is tired of being a lady. She's tired of pretending to live up to the standards of her mother's noble family, especially now that the family's wealth is gone and their stately mansion has fallen to ruin. It's hard enough that she must tend to the animals and find a way to feed her mother and her little sister each day. Jane's burden only gets worse after her mother returns from a trip...

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister spending a year in England, use clues in their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook as they try to solve the mystery of a monster threatening a peaceful country village where a documentary film is being made.

Retells the story of the minotaur through the eyes of his fifteen-year-old sister, Ariadne, a lonely girl destined to become a goddess of the moon, and her new friend, Theseus, the son of Athens' king who was sent to Crete as a sacrifice to her misshapen brother.

At the beginning of seventh grade, Ariadne moves to a Tennessee town near a former farming community submerged under a man-made lake and meets the ghost of a girl from the past.

When she was six years-old Carys "Clancy" Edwards's mother died in a skydiving accident and in the ten years since her father has refused to even let her think about skydiving, despite the fact that it is his business--but Clancy is now sixteen and she is beginning to think that it is time to break out of the protective cocoon her father has woven around her.

Introduces the history, culture, and people of ancient Greece and examines its many contributions to the development of Western society.

Xen and Xander Homes think living in London will be boring. But one afternoon they're handed a cryptic note that leads them to a hidden room -- and a secret society. When they discover that they're related to Sherlock Homes and inherit his unsolved casebook, life becomes so much more exciting. The siblings set out to solve the cases their famous ancestor's couldn't, staring with mysteryof a prized painting that vanished more than a hundred years ago....

Surveys the geography, history, economy, and people of the state of Virginia.

When sixteen-year-old Telemachos and his two best friends, one a centaur, leave their life of privilege to undertake a quest to find Telemachos's father Odysseus, they learn much along the way about what it means to be a man and a king.