The excitement of the Fourth of July is in the air and young Lucky Hart is as anxious as ever to see the big fireworks display, but when a weird event alters the plans and leads to a change in the town name, Lucky begins to think that all the holiday spirit has suddenly and completely vanished. Teacher's Guide available.

Skyrockets and Snickerdoodles: A Cobtown Story

Children's Books

VAN NUTT, JULIA

Literature & Fiction

Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Lucky Hart loves Christmas. She loves making garlands and wreaths, baking spice cookies, and deciding on just the right presents for her family and friends. This Christmas, Lucky is also excited about singing in front of all the people of Cobtown. But the festivities take an unexpected turn. A lost blind man, lonely and far from home, arrives speaking "gibberish" no one understands...the pump organ breaks...a sick dog is found and Lucky and Oinkey the pig tend to him. Saddened by these events, Lucky wonders what kind of holiday it will be. Little does she suspect that the town's annual Christmas Eve party will bring a bounty of surprises to fill her heart--and the hearts of everyone in Cobtown--with the joy, magic, and music of the Christmas season.

A Cobtown Christmas: From the Diaries of Lucky Hart

Holidays & Celebrations

Missing: One Little Striped Pig! Oinkey has been pignapped! Three men of science arrive in Cobtown to collect new and rare plants, minerals, and animals. They are eager to take their discoveries back to the big city of Ploomajiggy. But their expedition fails. Humiliated, the scientists leave town, but not before one of them, Dr. Z. Z. Squeers, makes off with an animal that he's determined to display at the Ploomajiggy Museum of Animal History. The animal is Heddy Peggler's wild pig, Oinkey. But Oinkey doesn't go willingly. . . . With no time to lose, Heddy and her friend Fliberty Jibbert take off after Dr. Squeers. Lucky Hart joins them in Ploomajiggy. But what awaits them at the museum is enough to frighten the bravest soul. Will Oinkey regain his freedom? Or will he be forever captive and immortalized in the name of science?

Pignapped!: A Cobtown Story

Animals

Everyone in Cobtown is quaking with fear. For many nights, a horrific wailing has risen from the depths of Mineral Gorge, a forbidding place on the outskirts of town. Lucky Hart knows that its twisted paths and dark shadows are said to have swallowed people up. She's even more frightened when Old Hans says it may be haunted. But Lucky's aunt, Heddy Peggler, doesn't believe such nonsense and leads a search party. Lucky joins the nighttime search, venturing down into Mineral Gorge, where the ghostly screams pull them all deeper and deeper...

The Mystery of Mineral Gorge (Cobtown)

Mysteries & Detectives

There's a wild beast in Cobtown and its name is the Adapulgus! Burly Captain Ragg, his sidekick, Short Tooth, and their dog, Samson, captured the creature, and now they are traveling from town to town, selling tickets for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to view this savage creature. Lucky Hart, her friend Fliberty Jibbert and her aunt Heddy Peggler know the Adapulgus must be mighty ferocious. They have seen the creature's harness--and it is huge! Tickets are selling quickly--most everyone in Cobtown wants to behold the dreaded beast. Soon it is time to confront the Adapulgus. Soon it is time to face the monster in the shadows. . . .

The Monster in the Shadows

Robert Van Nutt

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The year: 1845. The place: Cobtown, USA. The writer: ten-year-old Lucky Hart, whose vivid diary entries evoke the special place she calls home and the many colorful and endearing folks who share her daily joys, her adventures, her traditions and her boundless American spirit. It's three days before the Cobtown Harvest Festival, and Lucky Hart's aunt Heddy Peggler can't get to her pumpkin patch. A fallen tree is blocking the entrance. Without Aunt Heddy's pumpkins, the big event won't include the annual Pie-Eating Contest, nor will there be any Pumpkin Race. Everyone is disappointed and Aunt Heddy's spirit remains low-at least until the pumpkins miraculously appear in her back yard. There's no time to lose, and no time to ask questions. But how did the pumpkins get there? Only Oinkey, Heddy's pet pig knows for sure!

Pumpkins from the Sky?: A Cobtown Story

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