Hopper, Nancy J

When she tries to befriend Sabrina, the new girl in class, fifth-grader Cassie finds unexpected obstacles in her path, not the least of which is Sabrina's prickly personality.

Thirteen-year-old Scott struggles to learn to control his temper, but not before it's led to all sorts of trouble, including dismissal from one baseball team, humiliation on another, and involvement with his enemy, Beaky, in a plan to catch some professional thieves.

An eighth grade girl, severely traumatized after witnessing her father's death, is not believed when she reveals to her psychiatrist and her English teacher that she and a classmate are targeted for kidnapping.

Although at first resentful when his mother forces him onto the high school swim team to lose weight, Michael eventually gains a new self-confidence and strength of character from the experience.

Thinking she can keep her father from marrying a young woman, seventeen-year-old Carrie begins a dangerous game of juggling two boyfriends.

Thirteen-year-old Scott struggles to learn to control his temper, but not before it's led to all sorts of trouble, including dismissal from one baseball team, humiliation on another, and involvement with his enemy, Beaky, in a plan to catch some professional thieves.

As the summer progresses, Meg's feelings for the popular leader of her crowd of girls change as the group's activities become less fun and more dangerous.

Concerned with becoming beautiful, eleven-year-old Stacy devises a moneymaking scheme in order to purchase a Bust-ter-sizer, and learns in the process that beauty is indeed only skin-deep.

When she tries to befriend Sabrina, the new girl in class, fifth-grader Cassie finds unexpected obstacles in her path, not the least of which is Sabrina's prickly personality.

Concerned with becoming beautiful, eleven-year-old Stacy devises a moneymaking scheme in order to purchase a Bust-ter-sizer, and learns in the process that beauty is indeed only skin-deep.