While in the park Sophie decides she wants a cookie and throws a tantrum when her mother will not give her what she wants. Both words and pictures capture the sudden and surprising intensity of the tantrum, and the reassuring comfort of the recovery....
As Americans throw themselves body, soul and pocketbook into the latest weight-loss craze, Maggie O'Leary's informed column about the pitfalls of dieting is the one sane voice crying out against the dietocracy. Plus-size Maggie, also known as America...
Meet Sophie and Annie. They're sisters. They're smart. They're fighting. They're funny!
Annie's sister Sophie won't eat her peas. Sophie's sister Annie is a know-it-all. Annie's sister Sophie refuses to be quiet. Sophie's sister Annie can't st...
A house can be more than just a shelter. Some houses are places where family traditions grow, where memories live.But what happens to the traditions and memories when the house is gone? After losing a beloved summer home to a treacherous storm, two c...
Q: How does a thirty-five-year-old newspaper reporter with a vanilla-sounding name like Jenny George know so much about men? A: She doesn't. When her live-in boyfriend made a relationship trade-in (for the lingerie model starring in the ad camp...
“What a treat it is to become acquainted with her family’s cast of characters!” -- Review of Texas Books “Warmth, humor, and fond remembrance waft through this beautifully worded and evocatively illustrated exploration of a young girl’s f...
Black Diamond was the fastest, the best. After every race he’d stand with a wreath around his neck while cameras clicked and smiling people called him champ. But when he stumbles and hurts his leg, all that vanishes. Black Diamond’s new home has ...
He's just a regular guinea pig with a fondness for Fruity-Nut Buffet—and dreams of the big time. Now he's leaving the only home he's ever known and heading for the coast. Stardom awaits him—but is it all he hoped it would be? Denise Brunk...
All day and night in sun and rain and snow, a stray dog wanders the streets of a neighborhood after its devoted owner has died. No one takes much notice of the thin, unremarkable animal that some people call Bones. No one except the narrator, a young...
It's an unsettled summer for Sirena. Back in Texas, her family's splitting apart, but here in Rhode Island, at the cottage of her free-spirited aunt, it's a different world. There are long days at the beach and intriguing encounters with him. Pilot. ...
After Jillian Shayne, fitness editor of Savvy Woman, accidentally spills a cosmopolitan into the lap of a party crasher at her company’s annual Christmas party, nothing in her life will be the same. Connor McCain seems to lack an impressive resume,...
"What's in a name? Everything… if you have my name." At her exclusive Manhattan high school, half the guys lust after seventeen-year-old Gia. The other half are afraid to even walk near her. After all, everyone knows who she is. They know that her ...
Allie Johnston's secret wish since the day she was twelve is to have her nose done. But she's never told anyone--not her parents, or even her best friend, Jen. But when she starts visiting a plastic surgery discussion board on the Web, she finds peop...
A Manhattan fashion consultant searches for a mysterious letter writer -- and finds an unexpected adventure . . . Sage Parker has a dream job -- she helps the rich and powerful keep their wardrobes current and suitable for every...
For sixteen-year-old Jillian McKay, the threat of Hurricane Danielle means a long car ride with her neighbors -- including River Daughtry, the former star quarterback of Harrison High. The guy who was headed to glory until suddenly he disappeared to ...