Moss, Marissa

Amelia gets through the awful feelings she has following a fire at her school. Her friends help her through it.

Provides a biography of nineteenth-century lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis who made her first rescue at age sixteen and won awards for her life-saving efforts over the years.

While waiting for her sister's medical appointment, a bored Amelia creates a handwritten book of fifty suggestions for passing the time.

For the first time since her grandfather's death, Rachel feels close to him as she and her grandmother celebrate Hanukkah with the simple menorah that he had made many years ago.

A little girl comes home after school and finds a monster in the house.

Amelia provides advice--some of it humorous--about surviving homework, teachers, oral reports, and other things that make school annoying or frightening.

Max's log book of observations, drawings, experiments, and inventions reveals the rich world of his imagination and his feelings about his parents' divorce.

A sister and brother are whisked away to modern Egypt where their father is doing research. There they become involved in a mystery surrounding an ancient lost queen. The story is filled with riddles and old tales, and the kids find a link to their own mother, who died mysteriously.

Contains "Amelia's Most Unforgettable Embarrassing Moments" in which Amelia records in her diary a nightmare come true when her older sister tags along on a sixth-grade class trip and Amelia must deal with her snoring and disgusting eating habits, and "Amelia's Guide to Gossip" in which Amelia passes on the lessons she is learning firsthand about rumors and gossip at school.

A ten-year-old draws and writes about her daily life in the journal she receives for her birthday.