Terris, Susan

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The latchkey kids

  • Terris, Susan
1986
Eleven-year-old Callie tries to cope with her new responsibilities when the family's changed circumstances force them to move to a new San Francisco neighborhood and leave her in charge of her younger brother.

Nell's quilt

  • Terris, Susan
1997
Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn' t want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.

The upstairs witch and the downstairs witch

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The neat upstairs witch and the messy downstairs witch family agree on the best way to prevent their house from being sold.

Pickle

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Recently moved to San Francisco, a nine-year-old girl with a vivid imagination decides to prove herself to the neighborhood children by taking up their dare to visit the "witch" across the street.

Author! Author!

  • Terris, Susan
1990
At 12, Valerie has her first children's book published and realizes fame is not all it's cracked up to be.

Baby-snatcher

  • Terris, Susan
1984
During Laurel's thirteenth summer, she babysits the baby of a sculptor for whom she develops romantic feelings, only to make the shocking discovery that he is not what he seems to be.

The pencil families

  • Terris, Susan
1975
After she discovers a dead body floating in the lagoon, ten-year-old Emily's life becomes even more exciting than the fantasies she creates for her "pencil families.".

Nell's quilt

  • Terris, Susan
1996
Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.

Nell's quilt

  • Terris, Susan
1988
Nell wants to go to college, but her parents are forcing her to marry her cousin. Would she rather die?.

Wings and roots

  • Terris, Susan
1982
During the summer she works with polio victims, Jeannie meets a young climber who, like herself, needs to overcome a handicap and to understand the meaning of taking risks.

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