Twenty Pageants Later

Author	Amy Hest
ISBN	0763621633

Mementos from her mother's students help a young girl to grieve in a middle-grade novel by award-winning author Amy Hest.

Eight-year-old Annie lives in a sunny apartment in Manhattan with her father, Professor Rossi. Life would be pretty good if only Annie didn't so achingly miss her mother....

Author	Anne Lindbergh
ISBN	0316526282

I FOUND IT!

For years, I have thought about this book from time to time. I vividly recalled reading a really good book, narrated by a girl living with her grandmother and involving time travel down a laundry chute. I had no idea what the title was or who the author was, so I despaired of ever finding...

Author

Ann M. Martin

I didn't read this as a kid. I just...I don't know. I couldn't read it, I guess? I don't now. Anyway, I read it tonight and...wow. This is possibly the best book ever written by Ann Martin/the ghosties. It felt so real, so true to life, and it was intense. I bawled through it.

I lost my grandmother...

Author	Paula Danziger
ISBN	0698117883

I haven't read this book in a really long time. But I was privileged enough to get this book autographed by Paula Danziger herself. She came to visit my elementary school in the 4th grade. Her Amber Brown series was the first set up books I ever picked up on my own and read. I couldn't read until the 4th grade,...

Author	Ida Vos
ISBN	0395564700

Ein tolles Buch über das Leben von Juden im 2.Weltkrieg.
Das Buch ist zwar nicht sehr dick, bringt aber doch die Gefühle der Protagonistin Rachel seht gut rüber. Leider ist das Buch nicht aus der Ich-Perspektive von Rachel geschrieben, sondern objektiv von einem Erzähler, sodass man nicht...

Author	Sonia Levitin
ISBN	0140375376

Sonia Levitin has written excellent books. Journey to America is a classic of Jewish historical fiction. This is not excellent, by any means. It is religious, which I am not comfortable with. It is a poor story. You are never altogether sure how the two ended up with each other. There is too much back and...

Author	Eve Bunting
ISBN	0449704556

Jessie and her best friends in boarding school have always loved their teacher, Miss Müller. Half-German and half-Irish, she's as beautiful as a movie star. But ever since their country, Ireland, went to war with Germany, they don't feel the same way. In fact, the girls now think there's something...

Author

Peter Lerangis

A suspicious baby-sitter . . . a pair of conspiracy theorists . . . more secret codes from Spy X. Twins Evie and Andrew have more than a mystery on their hands.

Evie and Andrew have always wondered what happened to their mother after she disappeared on their birthday. Now they are starting to find...

Author	Betsy Haynes
ISBN	0553153986

Lorna Markham and Scotti Wheeler are next-door neighbors and best friends. And they each share the same problem: their mothers. Lorna's mother nags her about her schoolwork, wondering why she can't be more like Scotti. And Scotti's mother nags her about her eating habits, telling her to follow Lorna's...

Author	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN	0375806733

This one I grabbed specifically from a library sale for my Little Free Library. I didn't realize it was part of a series until I started reading it.

Here we have the third book in the "Boys versus Girls" series of stories between the Hatfords and the Malloys (clever, and I didn't even put the joke/reference...

Author	Anna Myers
ISBN	0802795609

In Denver, Robin (a.ka. Bird) is in with the cool clique. They wear the same clothes, talk the same way, and pick on the same girls. But when her Mom hears about a cruel prank against a less popular girl, she isn't going to tolerate the Queen Bee behavior. Within 24 hours, she pulls up stakes and moves them...

Author	Ellen Conford
ISBN	0590438247

From Dull to Dangerous???

Adam is so cute. And his locker is right next to hers. But how can Maddy Kemper, self-labelled Mouse, get him to notice her?

Why, with the help of that best-selling new book, Seven Days to a Brand-New You. In just seven days, Maddy is determined to go from dull...

Author	Susan Saunders
ISBN	0590406418

In this first book of the Sleepover Friends series, Stephanie invites a new girl in school, Patti, to the Friday-evening sleepovers she has with Lauren and Kate. During a TV movie, Kate imitates an actress and puts a curse on Patti and it seems to work. Only Lauren and Patti notice, but Patti can't do anything...

Author	Melissa J. Morgan
ISBN	0448444518

Jenna is psyched to have all of her friends up to her lake house! Greenwood Lake is so much fun, especially on Memorial Day weekend, when they have an annual county picnic and an old-fashioned carnival. The weekend is off to a perfect start . . . until Jenna’s brother invites David, her old crush and Sarah’s...

Author	Carolyn Keene
ISBN	0671505165

Nancy has come to Connecticut to visit George's aunt Elizabeth, and lands right in the middle of a controversy. George's aunt, among others, proposes a bicycle path instead of widening a dangerously winding country road, in order to save a rare speicies of bat. But a threatening phone call, a sinister...

Author	Allen Kurzweil
ISBN	0439926661

Years ago I read the first of Leon's stories, Leon and the Spitting Image. I rolled on the floor with laughter the whole way through and added that gem to our school library promptly. I had no idea a sequel was planned until I ran across a copy in a used bookstore. Hello!

Although it contains all the...

Author

Peggy Parish

Who or what is taking the kitchen scraps from the garbage every night? What starts out as a puzzle becomes a mystery. Every night Grandma leaves table scraps in a wrapped plastic bag in the garbage can where, according to plan, the McNellis children pick them up to feed their kittens. But the plan changes...