Lauren Child

A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.

Ruby senses a plot involving a perfume formula and missing jewelry.

When Lola is worried about starting school, her older brother Charlie reassures her.

When Lola's favorite book is not on the library's shelf, her older brother, Charlie, tries to find another book she will enjoy.

"Chirton Krauss is a good child--the very goodest. He does everything he is told, when he is told. He even does good things without being told. He eats his broccoli, he goes to bed on time, and he never, ever sticks his finger up his nose. Meanwhile, Chirton's sister, Myrtle, is not quite as good. She stays up late, she never cleans out the rabbit's pen, and she drops her cocoa puffs all over the rug. But what will happen when Chirton Krauss decides...

Lola does her very best to not get dirty at school so she will be clean for her school pictures, but she isn't quite so lucky.

Die jüngste Geheimagentin der Welt Rubys Regel Nr. 1: Man weiß nie genau, was als nächstes passiert! James Bond, Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes - gähn! So gut wie die ist Ruby schon lange. Findet sie selbst. Ruby ist intelligent, clever, auf gar keinen Fall auf den Mund gefallen und erst dreizehn Jahre alt. Und Ruby braucht ihre messerscharfe Logik und genaue Beobachtungsgabe, denn jemand hat ihre Familie ausgeraubt und ihre Haushälterin entführt...

After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is sent back from India to live in her uncle's huge, gloomy house on the English moors. Mary is lonely and miserable until she stumbles upon her disabled cousin Colin, hidden away from the world by his troubled father. Together they discover the door to a secret garden, and open up a world of freedom and enchantment that they could have never imagined . . .