Moss, Marissa

Amelia keeps a journal of the makeover she gives herself to impress the new girl Charisse and the archaeological dig her class participates in.

Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.

A lined, blank notebook for filling with one's personal thoughts, drawings and paper clippings. Pages have border decorations and annotations by Amelia.

Amelia gets through the awful feelings she has following a fire at her school. Her friends help her through it.

Provides a biography of nineteenth-century lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis who made her first rescue at age sixteen and won awards for her life-saving efforts over the years.

While waiting for her sister's medical appointment, a bored Amelia creates a handwritten book of fifty suggestions for passing the time.

For the first time since her grandfather's death, Rachel feels close to him as she and her grandmother celebrate Hanukkah with the simple menorah that he had made many years ago.

A little girl comes home after school and finds a monster in the house.

Amelia provides advice--some of it humorous--about surviving homework, teachers, oral reports, and other things that make school annoying or frightening.