Greene, Constance C

Officially grown up and ready for her first blind date, Al and her best friend, Thelma, go to great lengths to make themselves beautiful for the big night out with Thelma's cousin Harry and his friend.

A young girl learns to cope with her feelings about her sister's accidental death.

A seventh-grade girl, her slightly fat girl friend, Al, and the assistant superintendent of their apartment building form a mutually needed friendship with the usual--and a few unusual--joys and sorrows.

Anxious to change his "goody-goody" image, eight-year-old Guy is delighted when Isabelle the Itch offers to teach him the art of being a funny pest.

The daughter of divorced parents befriends an eccentric new girl who is full of unexpected surprises.

A fourteen-year-old who feels betrayed by his father's remarriage and who is the butt of some pranksters' jokes becomes filled with a hostility that permeates all his relationships and carries him into a near-tragedy.

A teenage girl with a poor self-image gains self-esteem with the help of a sympathetic teacher and a childhood friend.

Her best friend's family helps cushion the blow when Al must sacrifice a summer visit to her father's farm in order to take care of her sick mother in New York City.

When she takes over her brother's paper route, Isabelle finds an outlet for her excess energy and a way to make friends out of enemies.