Anne Mazer

When strange things start happening and eight-year-old Mabel, who is very sensible, cannot figure them out, she discovers a family secret that affects her younger sister Violet.

"It's summer, and Abby Hayes has nothing to do. So it's the perfect time to get a pet! Abby is sure that she can handle the responsibility. But things don't go as planned ..."

Abby is having a party and decides to give her room a make over to make it more impressive for her guests.

When Abby's best friend, Jessica, moved away, Abby was beside herself. But time has passed, and the gap Jessica's absence left in Abby's life has been filled by new friends, especially Hannah. Meanwhile, Jessica's done a lot of changing herself. She calls herself Jessy, and instead of baggy overalls, she wears hip teen clothes. She even has a boyfriend! Although things are different now, Abby and Jessy eventually find that they still have a bond.

Abby is sad when Jessica goes away to spend several months with her dad.

Abby's teacher has to leave school for a few weeks and leaves Abby in charge of the gift box project. When the mean substitute teacher won't let Abby make announcements about it, she and her new friend Hannah must think of a solution.

Prompted by a neverending stream of letters pleading for advice on how to be a better writer, successful children's authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter put their heads together to create this useful guide. With dozens of books and decades of experience between them, the authors brought their distinct personal styles to the advice they had to offer. Now they have done the same for this audio version, with each author narrating her own sections. Along...

"This year the Fall Festival at the high school will be the best ever. Abby wants to go with her friends--not her parents and little brother. But first she has to prove how mature she has become..."

A young boy finds a salamander and thinks of the many things he can do to make a perfect home for it.