Karen Barss

Martha visits a farm and helps with various farm chores.

"Could there be a bigfoot monster hiding in the woods of Flea Island?"--P. [4] of cover.

Martha and Helen decide to enter Wagstaff City's Go Green Go-Cart race. They do some research and visit the junkyard to find what they need to built a solar-powered cart. T.D. and Alice also visit he junkyard because they are making a wind-powered cart. Ronald and Reginald win the race with their cart "powered by a goldfish" but later they fight and crash into a post revealing that it is a lawnmower! T.D. and Alice are the real winners and Junkyard...

When Martha rolls in garbage, she smells so bad that Helen's father refuses to let Martha back inside the house until she has a bath.

"Martha worries that her recent bouts of bad luck might be contagious! Uh-oh. Martha walked under a ladder--and then she broke a mirror--so now she thinks she's jinxed! Helen tries to explain that all the accidents are just coincidence. But when a nearby toddler stumbles and a waiter takes a clumsy spill, Martha worries that her bad luck might be rubbing off on everybody else. Will Martha be spreading bad luck for seven whole years?"--Publisher.

An introduction to Martha the dog who began talking after eating alphabet soup.

After Alice takes sun protection to the extreme, she might have to miss Tiffany's pool party on the hottest day of the year. But Martha is dtetermined to see that Alice doesn't miss her party.

Martha visits a farm and helps with various farm chores.

When Alice and Helen go camping on Flea Island with the Junior Gophers, Alice's big brother Ronald tells them about Big Minnie, the scary monster that lives in the woods, so Martha goes along to protect the girls.

Martha is a special dog--she can speak.