Roberts, Willo Davis

A detailed description of juvenile-onset diabetes (Type I) using a fictional form in which eleven-year-old Amy discovers that she has the disease, learns to treat it and to deal with her anger, and finally accepts that she can live with it.

When Alex and his friends try the spells in an old book, things don't happen quite as they'd thought, but they decide to try the bully spell on the school bully anyway.

When a falling body strikes Nick's car as he drives under an overpass, the police call the man's death a suicide, but Nick suspects murder and finds his life in danger when he tries to investigate.

When her father is called home on business from their summer vacation, fourteen-year-old Nikki is forced to cope with adult-sized problems: her young new stepmother is traumatized by childhood memories, while Nikki feels she is being stalked on her new friend Julian's property.

After her mother's death and her father's suicide, fourteen-year-old Teddi finds some stability when she moves in with Mamie, her good-hearted next door neighbor--until the arrival of a woman claiming to be the pregnant wife of Mamie's son who recently died in a plane crash.

Eleven-year-old Kaci and her nosy elderly neighbor Mrs. Banducci are kidnapped and held hostage after Kaci accidently interrupts burglars in the process of robbing her house.

A ten-year-old girl, who has always looked different than other children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that there are others like her.

Laurie is physically abused by her mother; can she escape, and will anyone believe her story?.

Upset that his parents do not seem to pay any attention to him or care about him, eleven-year-old David becomes even more worried when they deposit him for the summer with a grandmother he hardly knows so that they can go about their own busy lives.

A detailed description of juvenile-onset diabetes (Type I) using a fictional form in which eleven-year-old Amy discovers that she has the disease, learns to treat it and to deal with her anger, and finally accepts that she CAN live with it.