In the small town of Eden, Virginia, Glamour Day at the Klip-N-Kurl beauty parlor may be sixteen-year-old Tallie Brock's ticket to movie stardom, even as she tries to figure out what went wrong on her secretive mother's similar attempt at fame four years earlier.
Follows the amusing misadventures of a little girl as she shops for the perfect birthday gift for her mother, blackens a blackboard, and cares for a lost cat.
"A novel about two girls on the run from their problems, their pasts, and themselves. Max and Sadie are escaping to Nebraska, but they'll soon learn they can't escape the truth"--Provided by publisher.
Tangy Mae, the darkest of ten children born to Rozelle Quinn, an abusive and controlling woman, struggles to earn her education and win her freedom from her mother who wants Tangy to quit school and go to work in a local brothel.
A guide to helping children with eating disorders, with discussion of today's most popular diet programs, an appendix with nutritional guidelines, and personal letters and journals from daughters and parents.
When Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio, takes in a strange girl named Beloved, she finds that she must face her unthinkable past in order to own her present and future.
Serafina, a fifteen-year-old, Mexican Indian girl, is desperate to leave her impoverished village in Mexico, but after she illegally emigrates to California, she learns that life is hard no matter where she lives.
Fifteen-year-old Katie tries to cope with many changes in her life when her actress mother acquires a serious suitor, her best friend drifts away into other interests, her dance teacher encourages her hopes of a dance career, and the boy she's always admired suddenly notices her.
Presents the author's first-hand account of growing up in Mooreland, Indiana in the 1960s and 1970s, remembering her eventful family life and championing her mother's accomplishments with fondness.
