Little Eva #19

When the boys wreck her playhouse, Eva discovers a secret cave hideaway in the park and moves her operation there—but her scheme to keep the boys at bay by acting mysterious backfires when Hot-Rod gets stuck trying to follow her. Eva and her friend Cindy strike a bargain with their uninvited guest, using a little quick thinking to turn the tables and secure their new hideout from any future boy trouble.

Little Ike learns a hard lesson about safety when he ignores a friend's warning about proper sawing technique—only to have his own safety lecture cut short by an unexpected mishap. Over in another tale, Little Eva helps a pal out of a sticky situation at the dentist's office, proving that quick thinking and a little resourcefulness can save the day.

Jumpy dreams of owning a sleek convertible at Cheerful Charlie Used Cars, but the fifteen-hundred-dollar price tag is way out of reach. When the steep cost forces him to accept he's stuck with his old jalopy, fate has other plans in store.

When Sue gets kicked out of the Merry Sunbeams for unpaid dues, she decides to fake an illness and hopes her former club members will feel bad enough to visit her. The plan works a little too well—the girls feel so sorry for her that they scramble to earn money for a get-well present through odd jobs and even put on a benefit show. But Sue's scheme backfires spectacularly when the truth comes out, and she learns a hard lesson about honesty and friendship.

Little Eva and her friend Cinders head to the beach for a day of fun, but their plans take a turn when a stray dog wanders into their lives—and the boys show up too. When the girls claim the pup and the boys decide they want him back, a series of beach mishaps and trades ensue that neither group quite expects. By the time the dust settles, someone's getting rewarded, and someone else is learning that a good deal isn't always what it seems!

Kid Carrots will do just about anything for money to buy carrots, even grueling night-shift construction work—but when a robbery interrupts the job site, things take an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Little Eva and her scout friend Helen find themselves lost in unfamiliar terrain, relying on scouting skills and determination to find their way home.

Little Eva and a boy named Nipper attempt to make invisible ink using a chemistry set, but their experiment goes hilariously wrong—ruining his mother's tablecloth in the process. When Nipper ends up wearing the damaged tablecloth as a ghost costume for the school masquerade party, the two friends scramble to find a way to replace it before his mother finds out.