Meyerhoff, Jenny

Samantha Bloom is nervous about going to sleepaway camp for the first time, and her annoying cousin being there with her can only make things worse. When she gets there, however, she discovers that she underestimated the food, the friends, and even her cousin, Daniel.

After a video of ten-year-old Louie Burger is aired on a comedy television show, Louie hopes that he will no longer be a Boy Used to Ridicule and Put-downs (B.U.R.P.), but his popularity is very short-lived.

Fifteen-year-old Essie Green is an orphan who has been raised by her secular Jewish grandparents in Michigan. She is excited that she has finally made the cheerleading squad but now is experiencing conflicting loyalties and confusing emotions when her aunt, uncle, and cousin move back from New York, and her very religious cousin tries to fit in with the other football players at Essie's high school, one of whom is Essie's popular new boyfriend.

With a school Talent Bonanza coming up, there is only one thing that can keep fifth-grader Louie Burger from taking a big step toward his dream of becoming a world-famous comedian--extreme stage fright.

When third-grader Polly Peterson finally loses her first baby tooth, she wonders if she is too old for a visit from the tooth fairy.