Maddie is desperate to keep her favorite horse from being sold in this first book in a contemporary middle grade series in the tradition of Marguerite Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague. Madison “Maddie” Martinez loves her weekly riding lessons, and she loves working with her favorite horse, Cloudy, every time. So she is shocked when she finds out Cloudy’s former owners might want to buy her back! Maddie desperately concocts various plans to stop the sale: maybe she can raise money to buy Cloudy herself, or what if she can make the potential buyers lose interest? Maddie’s online Pony Post friends—Brooke Rhodes, Hayley Duncan, Nina Peralt, who all share a love of Chincoteague ponies—can tell something is up, but at first Maddie is afraid to tell them what’s happening. If she loses her only connection to Chincoteague, will they even want to be friends with her anymore?

Includes excerpt from Blue ribbon summer.

Maddie dreams she is having breakfast by the pool, a tropical breeze ruffling the palm trees as her limo warms up in the garage--until her baby sister's screams wake her up, and she goes downstairs to find her brothers fighting over dry toast. Maddie wants to make her dreams real, and she's missing only one thing: money. When her friend Nicholas suggests a get-rich-quick scheme involving the lottery tickets at his parents' store, Maddie thinks they have a license to print money. But the more tickets they get, the farther behind they fall until they find themselves in real trouble. Maddie's Millionaire Dreams is the story of a group of kids who learn the value of money--the hard way.

After facing her parents' divorce, Maddie dreaded her summer vacation at Lake Marie, but her heart and mind is changed by a series of unexpected encounters with a group of colorful characters, including her cousin Jake, and her three talented, but eccentric great aunts Matilda, Meg, and Peg.

This book provides an historical analysis of the TV crime series as a genre, paying close attention not only to the nature of TV dramas themselves, but also to the context of production and reception.

In an instant, Gene Finns wife is gone in a horrible car accident. With his life shattered, Gene eventually resigns from his job as an FBI agent and begins tailing husbands and wives to catch them cheating. After he grows weary of the bizarre dreams and sleeplessness that plague him nightly, Gene visits a sleep center headed by a doctor who promises to help him through therapy and dream analysis. Unfortunately Gene has no idea that he has just walked into the midst of a diabolical plot to take control of the world. Maddie Vaughan works for a powerful lobbyist group in Washington led by her charismatic ex-lover. Although she enjoys success by day, at night Maddie is beleaguered by insomnia. When she seeks relief at a sleep center, Maddie is suddenly overwhelmed by strange dreams that begin taking over her life. After she and Gene meet and realize that someone is attempting to control of their minds, they must seek the answers within their dreams to save themselvesand humanityfrom a dark destiny. In this sci-fi thriller, two insomniacs desperate for help unwittingly uncover an evil political plot they must attempt to destroy, before it is too late.

A poodle with a pink tail dreams of finding love in France in this illustrated childrens book. Maddies expressive personality shines through in Nicksichstext, and her charm is well captured in the cute, detailed imageswhich look like a mix of line art and paints. A wish-fulfillment story stars an appealing, French-speaking canine who wants to share her big heart. - Kirkus Reviews