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Is it possible to be too good a friend -- too understanding, too always there, too much like a doormat? Alice has always been a good friend to Pamela...

In one single instant, everything can change....Wouldn't it be great to go back to the time before Pamela got pregnant, before Patrick left for the...

Now that she is setting into eighth grade, the class she used to envy, Alice discovers it isn't as exciting as she thought. She's tired of being the...

Alice and her classmates are facing some grown-up decisions as an assignment for the Critical Choices unit in health class. Alice and Patrick are...

A month before I started eighth grade, I knew I was going to have to face something I'd been afraid of for a long time....If we were going to spend the...

Newbery Medal winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has crafted a funny and heartwarming story about a boy who wants to be a hero--and what that means.

Finally, Alice is thirteen. But being a teenager isn't always as fantastic as Alice dreamed it would be. A sophisticated night on the town with her...

Alice in ChargeIt all starts when Aunt Sally reminds Alice that now that she's about to turn thirteen, she's the Woman of the House. Alice has always...

Alice has always tried to be a decent person. She gets good grades, comes home on time, and has never really given her dad and her stepmom any reason...

Alice comes home on the first day of junior high with a list of seven things about seventh grade that stink. The one good thing she can think of...

The key to surviving seventh grade, Alice figures, is fitting in -- getting her ears pierced like everyone else, dressing like everyone else, joining...

There's a lot about growing up that's confusing to Alice McKinley. Her mother died when she was four - how can her father and her nineteen-year-old...

According to Pamela's cousin in New Jersey, the worst thing that can happen to a girl is to start seventh grade without a boyfriend. So Alice is glad...

Percy's family is going on a picnic, and he can't imagine being at the beach without his favorite stuffed animals. There's his teddy, his grizzly, his...

It's the summer before junior year, and Alice is looking forward to three months of excitement, passion, and drama. But what does she find? A summer...

Do not panic.Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If Roxie's...

Polohas always longed to find his mother. All he remembers is that she was soft and warm and smelled of milk. So when sassy, street-smart Geraldine...

Freedom!It's the moment Alice has been looking forward to for years -- her sixteenth birthday is coming up, and that means getting her driver's...

There are good years and bad years for kids . . .. . . and fifth grade is turning out to be a bad one for Alice. Her teacher, Mrs. Swick, never smiles....

Is Three a Crowd in the McKinley Household?The day that Alice has been hoping, wishing, and waiting for has finally arrived: Her father and Sylvia...

Texas Jake is on the mend...and the fur is really flying.Texas Jake, the big yellow tomcat, was badly injured saving his friends from the huge mastiff...

It's a scary world out there.If only Marco hadn't read a newspaper article about a ranch and become determined to see one. If only Polo hadn't found...

Can someone die of embarrassment?Everything seems to go wrong for Alice in fourth grade -- whether it's being seen in her underpants by Donald Sheavers...

It's the summer after Alice's freshman year, she's survived her breakup with Patrick, and she and her friends are looking forwards to their jobs as...

There are strange goings-on once again in Middleburg. Someone has put up posters warning townspeople that the dreaded Indiana Aztec bat has been...

"One of the most feared of a witch's powers is that of the evil eye..."After throwing Mrs. Tuggle's evil glass eye into the creek, Lynn and her best...

Kate Sterling has lost four years of her life to grief and anger. Zeke Dexter has lost four years of his life as well -- in jail for the accident that...

All Alice wants is a friend.Well, a pet and pierced ears and really long hair would be nice, too -- and most of all, Alice wishes she still had a...

Life After PatrickIt isn't Alice and Patrick anymore; it's simply Alice, and much to her surprise, Alice is finding that's okay. In fact, working on...

Alice has decided she needs priorities in her life -- and the first is to get her favorite teacher, Miss Summers, to marry her father. The only problem...

From the shadowsof the pool,Black as midnight,thick as gruel...Is Mrs. Tuggle a witch? Lynn and Mouse are sure she is - how else can you explain the...

Feel the darkness,touch the black,hear the shadowswhispers back...Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are convinced Mrs. Tuggle is a witch, even if no one...

Breaking up is hard to doAlice is starting high school, and everything is new. But it's the new girl, Penny, who's making ninth grade a real challenge...

When the darkness,tolls the hour,I shall have youin my power...Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are positive their neighbor, Mrs. Tuggle, is a witch....

In this conclusion to the York Trilogy, is Dan closer to answering his questions, and discovering who left the footprints at the window?Dan has had...

The Most Exciting Summer of Their LivesThat's what Pamela says about the summer before ninth grade, and she, Alice, and Elizabeth are determined to...

SecretsOrphaned fifteen-year-old Judith Sparrow brings two secrets to her uncle's house in South Carolina: one, that her grief-stricken mother died in...

TAKING SIDESRyan Walker has always known what he wants to be -- a cowboy, like his father was before being injured in a riding accident. But when...

Bodies are coming and going from the Bessledorf Hotel -- dead and alive! Who wants to stay in a hotel full of zombies? Not too many -- and that's a big...

Here is the remarkable story of Amy Audrey Perkins. She was kind of a klutz. Things just seemed to happen wherever she went. But suddenly, something...

Newbery Medalist Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's one hundred and more books are true to life, funny, and, most of all, well written -- you'd think that she...

Alice likes her life, but she senses things are changing. She gets a little bored by her best friends Elizabeth and Pamela's constant chatter about...

MARTY WILL DO ANYTHING TO SAVE SHILOHWhen Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight -- and also...

trapped in a world that time forgotJosh is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn't ask for and doesn't want, when he...

The sign in the parachute factory reads: "...to insure that every parachute will open, each of our employees knows that at any time, an inspector may...

Everything's Bonkers at Rosemary AcresThere are lots of rules at Rosemary Acres, where T.R. and his brother Danny live with their mother, and the "no...

The motion picture based on Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Newbery Medal-winning novel Shiloh was given two thumbs-up by Siskel and Ebert and went on to...

The motion picture based on Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Newbery Medal-winning novel Shiloh was given two thumbs-up by Siskel and Ebert and went on to...

IS THERE PIRATE TREASURE BURIED IN MIDDLEBURG?According to local legend, Peg Leg the pirate once spent the night at the Bessledorf Hotel, and he may...

Can the truth thaw Chrissa's frozen heart?It's been three years since Chrissa's father walked out of her life. Too angry even to speak to her mother,...

Everything's perfect at Rosemary Acres. All the streets are named after spices. The hedges and lawns are perfectly trimmed. The townhouses are all the...

For Doug's brother, Gordie, the ridge with its spectacular view is a magical, special place, but for Doug, it's The Fear Place. Two years ago, Doug...

Kevin loves to go to the playground, but not when Sammy is there. And Sammy, who boasts that he is King of the Playground, is there most of the time. ...