Margaret Willey

• Jan-1983
• / General Fiction
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Self-conscious about her smallness, Lydia develops an obsession with size. She begins keeping a journalher Bigger Book, collecting information about getting bigger and stronger. As Lydia enters high school, she loses the journal, but not her anxiety ...

• Jan-1986
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• Oct-1988
• / General Fiction
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Bonnie gets a close-up view of marriage, parenthood, and relationships from two of her classmates--who are married and have a baby--and Robert, a shy boy, who gives her a lesson in self-awareness and understanding...

• Nov-1988
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-1991
• / General Fiction
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High school seniors Jesse Davis and Lenny Stevens are an inseparable pair, and despite warnings from their friends and much parental disapproval, they move in together, but when the chronic depression that Lenny has concealed from Jesse resurfaces, t...

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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Feeling like a new person after joining the music band, Crawl Space, Lisa Franklin hopes to get over the loss of her mother but fears that the other members of the band, who wanted a different sound, may not want her indefinitely....

• Oct-1998
• / General Fiction
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Sit down, Mother, and tell me again. When are my uncles coming? When?

Pressed against the windowsill in breathless anticipation, a little girl cannot wait for her beloved uncles to arrive for Thanksgiving dinner. She begs her mother to tell ...

• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction
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"Good afternoon, Mister Giant, Sir. I have come to make a bet with you." Can a very little girl beat a very large giant in feats of strength? That's what clever Beatrice bets on when she marches through the north woods to the home of the giant, hopi...

• Jul-2003
• / Thriller
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Fifteen-year-old Melinda feels split by the demands and expectations of her divorced parents with whom she divides her time. When Melinda spends a summer with her aunt, uncle and cousin, she realizes the unfairness of her situation and begins to rega...

• Oct-2004
• / Fantasy
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Everyone knows that Beatrice of the north woods is clever. But did you know that she's also mighty brave? In this disarming companion to the award-winning Clever Beatrice, our heroine proves that she's a pint-sized force to be reckoned with when she ...

• Oct-2006
• / General Fiction
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On Christmas Day I will bring you a bell from Père Noël's very own sleigh! That's the promise Beatrice makes when the children from the village ask whether Santa is real or not. Beatrice is, after all, the most clever girl in the whole north wood...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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We all know that Goldilocks has a lot to say about the Three Bears. Everything they have is either too hot or too cold or too big or too lumpy or too hard or too soft or too completely, absolutely wrong. Only one of them can get anything right! Just ...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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People can't always tell everything. Sometimes they have to leave things out so that they can recover. Start over. So that people will still be able to love them. Seventeen-year-old Pete Shelton's life revolves around helping his friend Abe McMich...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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"To you the idea to kidnap Chase Dobson might seem like a mistake. But to us... we were just trying to stop him from being so...evil. We just...we had to stop him. No one helps kids like us. Not at my school. We aren't the important kids. We knew it ...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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"To you the idea to kidnap Chase Dobson might seem like a mistake. But to us... we were just trying to stop him from being so...evil. We just...we had to stop him. No one helps kids like us. Not at my school. We aren't the important kids. We knew it ...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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When he was seven, Charlie Porter never intended to become the world's youngest published author. He just wanted his father to stop crying. So he told him a story about a talking beetle -- a dumb little story his mother made up to make him feel bette...