Mazer, Anne

Abby finally convinces her parents to purchase a cell phone for everyone in the family, but she is still jealous of her friend's top-of-the line model.

Eleven-year-old Lena Rosen, the only Jewish child on Moose Street, sees life as an insider and as an outsider.

Abby is excited about fifth grade. Can she prove to be special.

Two very dumb parents take the advice they receive about their new baby very literally.

A cumulative story relating the importance all things, large and small, hold in the universe.

Fourteen stories by American authors from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, including Duane Big Eagle, Nicholasa Mohr, Lensey Namioka, and Robert Cormier.

When Mabel and Violet are chosen to be flower girls for Aunt Dolores' wedding, Mabel instead decides to plan the entire celebration and asks Violet to use her magic to help.

Eight-year-old Mabel is excited when her parents buy her a new piano and begins practicing for a concert at their house. But soon Mabel becomes worried that her jealous sister Violet has plans to jeopardize her big performance.

After arriving at her cousins' beach home, organized and quiet Mabel feels she needs to hide the fact that her sister, Violet, is messy and obnoxious. Mabel later realizes her cousins see right through Violet and worries about what her cousins think of her.

A young boy who is half-human and half-ox struggles to survive in a society where animals are hated and contact with them is forbidden.