Rita Hestand: 77 books

Lee Cordell could fix anything, at least that's what he told Sid when he went for a interview of a job five years ago. Lee had worked on cars since he was little and helping his dad in his garage. Lee had built a life for himself now and he was relatively happy. He'd put the hard growing up teen years...

I was only six years old when I tried to solve the mystery of what is under my bed. I mean something is making a racket under there every night so I can't sleep. I had to find out what it was, even though it scared me. Was it an Alien? What it a monster. Sure, I watch too many scary shows on television....

Tim Nelson was called "the runt" at school. He was shorter even than the girls. Tim was tired of them calling him that and he needed some space to sort out his problem. So he played hooky and went to the pond close to his house. There he sat on a limb of a tree and looked out on the pond,...

Eddie's mom died and the bills were mounting up. So Eddie's dad married a waitress he'd met in town so he could leave Eddie with her and work on an off-shore oil rig. Eddie didn't know his new step-mother well before his father left. Now they were stuck together and things didn't look good for Eddie....

Old Henry was a mongrel dog, that had only one master all his life. When his master died, Old Henry moved to the city to be close to his master, and visited him every day. But Tanker, his friend, a German Sheppard was worried about Old Henry as he was too old to be traveling the seventeen blocks to the cemetery every day, so Tanker arranged for some of his friends to go with Old Henry.

Tanker was once in the K-9 division of his master's army unit. But that was long ago, his master had gone away never to be seen again. Now Tanker had another job. He was to look out after all the dogs in the neighborhood and keep them safe. When Pug the bulldog could no longer fit in his mister's...

Melanie George just finished college and her nursing school and was ready to take on her first job as a nurse at Mercy General. She also had another first, her first apartment. Her life seemed on track and now that she had broken up with Brad, she looked forward to settling into some kind of routine...