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