Martin, Ann M.

Claudia and Dawn and four other kids sail out to Greenpoint Island. But a storm blows up and the kids never return from the island.

When Stacey's father wants her to take a vacation with him, she suggests Fire Island because she knows it is where her boyfriend Robert's family is vacationing. She doesn't tell anyone what she has planned.

Maggie is determined not to fall in love.

Amalia, writing in her diary, shares her concerns over her friend Maggie's eating disorder, and her confusion over her feelings for Brendan, a new boy in school.

Contains the fictional diary of Ducky McCrae, a sixteen-year-old boy who is trying to cope with the absense of his world-traveling parents, and the changes he sees in his best friends Jay and Alex.

Thirteen-year-old Maggie Blume is a perfectionist who struggles with the normal things in life and in school, and she shares her thoughts through poems and songs in her journals.

Sunny continues to grapple with the fact that her mother is dying of cancer.

In an effort to loose weight, Maggie records all of her snacks and meals in her diary.

In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.

When a fight breaks out among the members of the Baby-sitters Club, timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a baby sitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.