Joan Lowery Nixon Books
The mysterious red tape gang.
A plan to secretly help their community nearly backfires for a group of children when they find themselves involved with real gangland criminals.
Read MoreThe mysterious red tape gang.
A plan to secretly help their community nearly backfires for a group of children when they find themselves involved with real gangland criminals.
Read MoreThe Haunting
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes The Haunting from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. The walls whisper. The ceil...
Read MoreA family apart
When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Read MoreA place to belong
In 1860, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm inear St. Joseph, Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his newly-widowed foster father to send for and m...
Read MoreOvernight sensation
Sixteen-year-old Cassie, daughter of a famous comedienne, wishes she could spend more time with her sought-after mother and at the same time be recognized as a separate identity.
Read MoreBeats me, Claude
Exciting escapades follow Shirley's attempts to make an apple pie for Claude until one day an orphan boy makes a pie that wins him Claude's favor.
Read MoreYou bet your britches, Claude
Shirley and Claude lead a settled life with their adopted son, Tom, until Shirley goes to town to retrieve Tom's sister, Bessie, and the two run into more than their share of trouble with criminals.
Read MoreThe haunting
When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it.
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