Doug Peterson

The Mess detectives help four youngsters learn to take responsibility for "messing up."

When the Mess Detectives Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato investigate Junior Asparagus' poor school grades, the two detectives end up learning something as well.

Awful Alvin has unleashed a fearsome monster made of garbage on the city of Bumblyburg, and it is up to superhero Larryboy to throw the creature out--but first, with God's help, he must battle his own fears.

"Based on the true story of Henry "Box" Brown's amazing escape from slavery, a gripping tale about the lengths to which people will go in seeking freedom brings to light one of the heroes of the Underground Railroad"--

"Inspired by the true story of John Scobel, one of the first African American spies in our nation's intelligence service, this novel tells the little-known story of an extensive network of African American spies operating right under the noses of Southern masters during the Civil War"--

"Based on the true story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned slave who escaped from Georgia in 1848. By posing as an ailing white man while her husband pretended to be her slave, Ellen and William Craft traveled over one thousand to freedom"--

Bob and Larry try to free Laura Carrot from the two lazy couch potatoes that have taken over her room and convinced her to do nothing but watch television.

"On Sven and Olaf's vacation, their fun is cut short by their hotel's service. Follow along to learn that putting your whole heart into something is really important"--Cover.

When the borders between East and West Berlin closed overnight in August of 1961, families and friends were suddenly split by concrete and barbed wire. Couples found themselves marooned on opposite sides of a divided city. In 2002, Kurt Hilst and Anna Robinson are assigned to begin piecing together documents found after the East German police began shredding documents after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. They encounter and follow two couples...