Orgel, Doris

A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school, but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.

Four Greek goddesses, Leto and her daughter Artemis, and Demeter and her daughter Persephone, relate their individual experiences as mothers and daughters.

Katie is unhappy after she and her mother move in with her very proper grandmother, until she makes friends with Luz Mendes, who makes her feel welcome and teaches her how to rollerblade.

Jenny longs to play in her older sister's room, but Sarah knows that Jenny is too young to be trusted. Then one day everything changes.

Princess Psyche's beauty incurs the wrath of the goddess Venus who sends her son Cupid to seek revenge.

A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school, but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.

Two crows, one big and one small, count things they see while flying overhead, from one to ten and then back down again from ten to one.

Three Greek goddesses, Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera, tell their own stories. Includes information about Greek society and religion.

In attempting to follow his mother's instructions, a good-hearted boy always does the right thing at the wrong time.

Shrimp must decide whether to befriend the new boy in his neighborhood, who is a Croatian American, or to join the kids who make fun of his name and his accent.