Greene, Constance C

While Al impatiently awaits letters from her father and his new wife and from a boy named Brian, her best friendship is threatened by the arrival of a house guest.

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.

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.

"Al(exandra) the Great" and her friend face the ups and downs experienced by every open and sensitive young person trying to cope in New York City.

During the Depression 12-year-old Dotty's dream of traveling seems remote until she finds money from a bank robbery and sets off with a companion in a snowstorm to visit her best friend in a neighboring town.

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.

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.

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

Eleven-year-old Fex O'Toole's inability to resist a double dare gets him into a lot of trouble.

When Isabelle discovers her new prot?g?e can't read, she acquires an unwilling and possibly unteachable pupil.