Despite her concerns about her lack of height, curves, and kissing experience, Nora's glamorous new friends, Dawn and Sandy, are determined to fix her up with Mark, the cutest boy in the seventh grade....
Between his summer baby-sitting job, his anxieties about talking to girls, and his increasing sense that his family is, well, embarrassing, twelve-year-old Harris is having a stressful summer....
Hoping to take first place at the school talent show, ambitious ten-year-old Regina Calhoun never doubts she will win despite her multiple detention sentences and is amazed when her plans go awry. Original....
Shortly after Kate is invited by Regina and Margaret to join their club, Regina realizes that Kate is trying to place a wedge between Margaret and her by spreading lies, and Regina decides to retaliate. Original....
Kenny feels like a lowlife creep. It's not just because he made an embarrassing, um, slip in class, but because he let Alice Flowers take the blame. Alice is already the class outcast and the butt of everyone's jokes. Now, thanks to Kenny and a coupl...
Seventh-grade Eleanor desperately attempts to break into the popular crowd at her new school, but her efforts are complicated by her discovery of a Civil War ghost in her backyard. The ghost, a young bugler named Joseph, is vanishing because the deve...
When Pa returns home with a new bride from the city, Nelly doesn't like her at first since she has no understanding of the wilderness, yet their relationship changes with time as Nelly realizes that they both have special talents and skills to offer ...
At a time when men and dogs are not friendly, Scraggly Hair helps Noah build an ark and round up the pairs of animals it will carry, but conditions on the boat turn his warm, dry nose to a cold, wet one....
Marie Antoinette was one of the most celebrated queens in history…but she was once a little girl, too. As told by her vain but devoted dog, Sebastian, here is the story of the young princess's life―from her childhood in Austria, to the elabora...
With her mother dead of the plague, and her beloved brother newly married and moved away, Cornelia van Rijn finds herself without a friend or confidante--save her difficult father. Out of favor with Amsterdam's elite, and considered brash and unreaso...
It's 1559. A young woman painter is given the honor of traveling to Michelangelo's Roman workshop to learn from the Maestro himself. Only men are allowed to draw the naked figure, so she can merely observe from afar the lush works of art that Michela...
From the author of The Creation of Eve comes a tale of love and madness, royal intrigue and marital betrayal, set during the Golden Age of Spain. Juana of Castile, third child of the Spanish monarchs Isabel and Fernando, grows up with no hope of i...
Based on the true story behind Gilbert Stuart's famous portraits of Washington, this funny historical read will leave rascals, ruffians, and troublemakers of all ages laughing. Charlotte, James, and baby John have promised to be on their very best...
From the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of the “page-turning tale” (Library Journal, starred review) Mrs. Poe comes a fictionalized imagining of the personal life of America’s most iconic writer: Mark Twain. In March of 1909, Mark T...
From the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and Twain’s End comes a “poignant, beautifully rendered story of two sisters who find the courage to reclaim their bond after years of misunderstandings and heartbreak” (Melanie Benjamin, New York Times b...
"Huge applause... women have always been in science -- despite those who would pretend otherwise.” --Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryShe gave up everything -- and changed the world.A riveting...