Martin, Ann M.

Nancy hopes to find a new best friend in her second grade class. Meanwhile, the students choose a guinea pig for the class pet.

Mary Anne is hired to act as a companion to eight-year-old Victoria Kent, a princess who is twenty-ninth in line to the British throne, and though Mary Anne and the rest of the BSC vow to make Victoria happy during her stay in America, the job turns out to be harder than they expected.

Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, are carried to school, mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens all dollkind.

When their little sister doesn't come home from school, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep, dark secrets about their natural mother, whom they must consider as a kidnapping suspect.

Karen befriends a cowboy when she vacations at a dude ranch.