THEY WERE WATCHING...AND WAITING At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why...
Eleven-year-old Mary Ella, ashamed that her older brother Morton is a slow learner and longing for a friend of her own, is astonished when the flamboyant new girl on the block picks Morton for a friend....
Being in a new place for Halloween is bad enough, but when Mike has a cold and can't go out in his cat suit, none of the visitors can cheer him up until the last one, who is wearing the best cat suit of all....
With all the teasing she must endure at school, Lucie Babbidge--called Goosie-Loosey by her schoolmates--looks forward to her hours outside school with her loving family and a pen pal in England. Reprint....