Karen and her brother live in a divorced fammily and share time with each of their parents. She and Andrew, who miss their father and their "big house family", help their parents work out a new custody arraangement that makes everyone a lot happier--even a hermit crab named Bob.

"It's fun to be a Baby-sitters Little Sister. No fair! Karen is having a bad-luck day. Her favorite jeans are missing. There's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box. And Boo-Boo the cat runs away from her! Karen tries everything to make her day better. But her bad luck just won't go away. She even gets punished and sent to her room! Poor Karen--will this be her worst day ever?" -- Back cover.

The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. Twelve-year-old Hattie learns that living life fully means facing both the good times and the bad upon the closing of her Uncle Adam's "school"- an institution for the mentally disabled.

Since her parents' divorce, Dawn lives in Connecticut with her mother while her brother and father are in California, but after a week's vacation in sunny, healthy southern California, Dawn isn't sure she wants to return to the East Coast.

During the summer before their seventh-grade year, Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey tackle difficulties, including family problems, crushes, moving, and making new friends.

Danielle, a leukemia victim, takes advantage of her parents, who allow her to do anything she wants.

Abby Stevenson, a member of the Baby-sitters Club, fulfills the traditional eighth-grade project at Stoneybrook Middle School by writing her autobiography.

Karen can't wait for Thanksgiving. Granny and Grandad are coming to visit. And Karen's family is going to New York City to see the Thanksgiving Day parade. But Grandad isn't feeling well, and Seth and Mommy are busy in the shop. Karen's Turkey Day is not turning out the way she thought -- but maybe Karen can fix things.

Maggie's weight-consciousness truly takes a turn for the self-destructive when she decides she can only be happy if she reduces her weight from 103 to 90 pounds, recording every bite of food she takes in her journal.

Four generations. Four girls. One family.An amazing new four-book series from Ann M. Martin. This first book in an all-new quartet from the phenomenal Ann M. Martin follows Abby Nichols in the 1930s in Maine. After her mother's death, Abby is largely responsible for raising her siblings, but she longs to write and live in New York City, far away from the tiny Maine town where she lives now. Once her father remarries and Abby has a stepmother she...