Jean Blasiar: 3 books

Emmy Budd is a twelve-year-old tomboy who finds her adventurer’s match in the new boy in town, Thomas John Blake, T.J.It is a hot summer in the small Mid-Western town of Jerseyville, Ohio. With no money and lots of time on their hands, Emmy and T.J. ferret out every freebie in town, from sailing...

Young Brady Johnson, called the Downtown Cowboy by his friends, lives with his widowed mother in the tenement district of a mid-western city. A favorite haunt of Brady’s is the city dump, one block away, where he spends most of his time rummaging through garbage, especially the garbage dumped on...

A very strange looking animal hatches in the thick brush in Emmy Budd's back yard. The animal becomes too large for Emmy or T.J. to handle and somewhat vicious as T.J. soon learns. Emmy's father takes the animal to a laboratory that studies mutations in the animal world brought on by climate changes....