Winthrop, Elizabeth

Jenny and her brother Charlie hardly ever spoke to each other until the summer they discovered that they could be friends.

Miranda finds herself on the spot with her best friend and also with a new friend she meets while running. Sequel to Marathon Miranda.

After her friend tells her kissing is for babies, Emmy Lou tries to make do with a pat on the shoulder.

Tired of being told what to do by everyone else in the family, Julia tries different ways of bossing them.

Granny and her grandchild take a nighttime trip to the zoo, where the animals have prepared a fabulous party and Granny dances the night away.

Maggie wants to get rid of the monster that visits her room every night and accepts her mother's suggestion to simply ask the monster what it wants.

A little girl finds so many things to do before she is ready for bed that she is the last of her family to fall asleep.

While waiting out a fierce hurricane in her grandmother's house on Fox Island, Belinda has a chance to get to know her grandmother's reclusive neighbor, Mr. Fletcher.

Twelve-year-old Grace Forcier and her friend Arthur, taken out of school and put to work in a Vermont textile mill in 1910, are championed by their teacher who urges them to write the National Child Labor Committee.

While playing hide-and-seek with his babysitter, Mrs. Duck, Bear peeks at his Christmas presents and feels terribly guilty afterwards.