Conrad, Pam

Two sixteen-year-old girls from different social classes spend the summer together on a resort island and experience a test of their friendship when family loyalties, romance, and drug dependence interfere.

Fourteen-year-old Robin tries to patch up the broken home of a battered wife and in the process discovers how deeply she's been hurt by the divorce of her own parents.

With her mother away on a honeymoon in Europe, fifteen-year-old Darcie spends the summer with her dour uncle and his wife, restaurateurs in a zoo where Darcie begins a search for the father she has never known and develops a crush on a mysterious seal and bird keeper who leads her into a test with death.

Zoe, traveling back to the time when her mother was a child, intervenes in the past in order to save the future.

Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.

When Doll Face needs Sweet Cake for her party, a chair, a tiny tin piano, and a whispering balloon come to life to help her find the finishing touch for her soir?e.

While Daddy makes spaghetti sauce in the kitchen, Elizabeth, Sophia, and Salvatore clean up the mess in the living room and give it a fantastic appearance.

Six stories, one from each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s, about children growing up in Levittown, New York.

After a morning of strawberry-picking with her mother and father, Molly spends her day finding new ways to enjoy her favorite fruit.

Nine-year-old Heather doesn't want to turn ten until wacky Rosa Rita shows her that growing up isn't so bad.