PreS-Gr 2-- When his mother arranges for a baby-sitter to stay with him while she goes to school, Kevin wants no part of it. According to him, sitters only like to paint their toenails, talk on the phone, and read ``kissy-kissy'' books. Aunt Lovey, a...
STRENGTHENING THE FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITY Each year on December 26, the African American holiday of Kwanzaa begins. What is the purpose of Kwanzaa? How did it get its start? Dolores Johnson's easy-to-follow guide gives detailed descriptions ...
A young girl describes how she once heard the sound of warning drums in Africa signaling the coming of horror. Kidnapped, made to march while chained, and taken to America to be sold at an auction, she undergoes the brutalities of slavery in this tal...
IF THE SUIT FITS... Mandy Dyer is all business. She has to be. Left high and dry by her would-be-lawyer ex-husband, Mandy turned to her uncle's Denver dry-cleaning company--and soon found herself in charge. Now, amid the hissing presses, rattling ...
DIRTY BUSINESS For Mandy Dyer, who had put away her painter's easel, cut her hair, and donned the life of a dry-cleaning entrepreneur, things were taking a turn for the best, and the worst, at the same time. Her main competitor, a man who played dir...
Designed to Kill Everything has come out in the wash for artist Mandy Dyer since she inherited Dyer's Cleaners. Her divorce is behind her, her future is secure, her heart is healed. Mandy's friendship with Kate Bosworth, proprietor of an antique c...
No ticket. No laundry. No alibi. Mandy Dyer could use a date. Unfortunately, the man who has come to her cleaning shop has only business on his mind. Detective Stan Foster unceremoniously dumped Mandy nine months before. Now he wants her help: to ...
The Bride Wore Red When a young bride visits Dyer's Cleaners asking for delicate alterations on a vintage wedding dress, owner Mandy Dyer quickly discovers a disturbing truth: The groom is Mandy's own womanizing ex-husband...and Mandy's troubles a...
TAILORED TO MURDER Denver dry cleaner Mandy Dyer is shocked to learn that customer and dear friend Thelma Chadwick has died, victim of a tragic fall down the basement steps. The woman also left Mandy something - two trash bags packed with worthless ...
After an accidental coat switch at a popular Denver restaurant, dry cleaner Mandy Dyer is tasked with finding the person who walked off with her cousin Laura's coat using an old dry-cleaning slip. When Laura, a photographer anxious to retrieve the un...
When normally dowdy Ardith Brewster starts bringing in her new, colorful, stylish clothing to Dyer's Cleaners, Mandy Dyer knows love is in the air. So who has inspired such sartorial splendor in the forty-something loan officer? Ardith confesses she ...