Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.

Horrible Harry sets out to discover who Miss Mackle is going to marry, and he takes some risky moves to be the first one to know.

On the last day of second grade, Song Lee's party at the local amusement park forces Harry to face his fear of elevators when he is expected to ride the Drop of Doom.

While visiting Aunt Molly at a fancy downtown hotel, Cam uses her photographic memory to help one of the guests find her stolen luggage and pet cat, and to catch the thief.

When a woman's poodle disappears during a boat ride around the city, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.

Harry persuades his classmates to sneak through the playground fence during lunchtime recess to view some unusual mushrooms.

Miss Mackle's third graders share December holiday traditions --Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Three Kings Day, and Korean New Year-- with each other and with Harry's great grandfather, who has just moved to a nursing home.

Acclaimed children's author Suzy Kline has written more than 20 of the ever-popular Horrible Harry books for beginning readers. In Horrible Harry on the Ropes, everybody's favorite third grader is staring down the most frightening thing he's ever seen: the climbing rope at gym class. Harry doesn't even want to touch the rope, much less climb it. But he's going to have to conquer his fears to solve a Valentine's Day mystery.