Meet Billie B. Brown, brave, brilliant, bold, and bound to become your best friend! Brand-new readers will readily relate to this series of stand-alone, everyday adventures. Filled with true-to-life situations, warm family relationships, humorous illustrations and positive problem-solving, they're taking the early reader scene by storm!  Billie finds a tiny bottle at the beach. Billie shows her new friend and insists The Secret Message is from a pirate! But then Billie has a little mishap ...