Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Hoping to earn a trip to an amusement park, the three Morgan children agree to take care of a chicken that their father plans to give their mother as a birthday surprise.

While living on his family's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday be a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who becomes involved in a militia movement.

Thirteen-year-old Kenny secretly calls himself "Cricket Man" after a summer of rescuing creatures from his family's Bethesda, Maryland, pool, which gives him more self-confidence and an urge to be a hero, especially for his depressed sixteen-year-old neighbor, Jodie.

Based on the novel by Newbery Award-winning author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor about a boy who rescues a mistreated dog from its owner.

In this sequel to Shiloh, Marty risks everything to turn an enemy into a friend, but it's Shiloh that teaches Marty about kindness and forgiveness when he heroically saves the life of the man who mistreated him.

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

Host John Robbins uses illustrations, music, sound effects and dramatic narration to encourage viewers to read The agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In this story, Alice learns it's what people are inside that counts, not the model appearance she so desperately wants.