When don Tono's candy store begins losing business to the new store in town, he creates a candy that passes on personality traits to whoever eats them.
Collects three novels by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, chronicling changes faced by fifteen-year-old Alice McKinley such as the addition of a stepmom, unexpected attention from a guy who is not her boyfriend, and more.
When the mysterious Philomena suggests that Grace Stanley get a job where her deceased brother's best friend, Jackson, works, the romance that quickly develops becomes complicated when Grace realizes that Jackson steals from the store.
Alice fills the summer before her junior year of high school with a job at the mall, hanging out with her friends, and wishing she had a bigger family.
Rin, shopkeeper of the Yume Kira Dream Shoppe, and his assistant, Alpha, listen for their customers' wishes and help them come true, but at a price some may not be willing to pay.
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.