Sachs, Marilyn

Rereading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" over Christmas break gives brainy, fifteen-year-old Alice a different way of looking at herself, her first boyfriend, her friends, and her family.

Olivia spends her fourteenth year trying to adjust to her parents' divorce, watching the changes her widowed grandmother is going through, and discovering boys.

Fifteen-year-old Penny enjoys living in the shadow of her idolized older sister, who is quirky, self-centered, impossible, and loved by everyone.

After a neighbor in her apartment building dies, ten-year-old Lily tries to find homes for his four ugly, noisy cats.

JoJo suffers the trials of having a younger sister, the irrepressible Winnie.

Follows the experiences of Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, as she loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City.

Distraught at the thought of their parents' divorcing, a brother and sister run away from home and take up residence in Golden Gate Park, where they encounter many homeless people and hear there is a murderer loose among them.