. .Seventh grade has just started and Sabrina Wells has got troubles! She's made an enemy of the principal's daughter, Stacy the Great, met the boy of her dreams, and been put in charge of the Homecoming Dance decorating committee.Will Sabrina manage to keep Stacy off her back, fall in love, and get shy Allison, preppie Katie, and Randy, the hip new girl from New York, to agree on a theme for the dance?

    But now that she's developing faster than Jana Morgan and her fifth-grade friends, it's an all-out war! What Jana and her friends don't know is that even the best-laid plans can backfire suddenly.

    A collection of poems, written by the fictional Jeremy Bloom, discuss homework, measly allowances, boring teacher assignments, and other trials and tribulations of youth.

    But she is wrong. The slam book sets off a tragic chain of events that ends in a senseless death. From the author of the Baby Sitter's Club series.

    Especially not Phoebe. It means she has to leave her New York City apartment and her boyfriend every Sunday night to spend the week in the country with her dad.It means she has to start at a new school, make new friends and watch her father go on dates. Now neither place feels like home. And then her mother makes an announcement.Can Phoebe cope with any more changes?

    With a lot of work and determination, Anda becomes the best gymnast in her class but family money is tight and she must win the regional championship and the accompanying scholarship or give up gymnastics completely.

    Return the black cat to its owner. But once Allison stepped into the dark, broken-down house, she regretted the whole idea. Now her biggest problem is getting out.

    During a TV movie, Kate imitates an actress and puts a curse on Patti and it seems to work. Only Lauren and Patti notice, but Patti can't do anything right. The act of curing Patti involves a couple of false starts, but her luck does turn, and it benefits them all. The characters sound and behave alike, almost indistinguishable from one another. But the realistic sleepover atmosphere, capitalized on several times, holds this book together: late-night movies, spooky sounds, creating hairstyles, boy talk and buckets of junk food. Ages 8-12. (Publisher's Weekly Review)

    Amanda would rather live in a fantasy world of her imagination than go to her new middle school, where the custodian is the grandmother she has never met.

    Quentin Blake's illustrations combine with full-color photographs of the luscious results to perfectly capture Roald Dahl's wicked sense of fun."Deliciously playful. Dahl, one suspects, would have been tickled." -- Publishers WeeklyThe late Roald Dahl was one of the most beloved storytellers of all time. Quentin Blake has illustrated more than a dozen books by Roald Dahl.

    So when the book club money disappears, why is the whole class punished? Nothing's fair!But soon Jenny realizes some things aren't fair for Elsie, either. Elsie is on a strict diet, but when she starts losing weight, her mother won't buy her new clothes. Instead, she plans to send Elsie to boarding school. Suddenly everyone wants to help Elsie. Nothing's fair in fifth grade - but sometimes things get better!

    Amid ailing cats and pregnant rabbits, a call comes in requesting help for a champion hunter horse who has crashed a fence. Upon learning that his world champion is not lame but in fact going blind, and thus no longer a financial asset, the owner orders the horse destroyed. Val, outraged, hatches a plan to save "The Ghost.''

    In the company are Alexandra, the daughter of Russian dancers who have defected; bubbly Kay; deceitful, beautiful Pamela; limber Linda; and Madame Preston. Leah is the most gifted dancer of the group, but she has trouble believing it and almost lets petty jealousies thwart her.

    So when Sherry came to visit her Aunt Judith, no one could explain the odd things that started to happen. Who was the elusive friend Sherry said she saw in the garden? Was she an imaginary playmate - or could she be the ghost of Miranda who had drowned in the pond years ago? Uncanny reminders of Miranda began to turn up - a blue rose, a lost riding whip... Lindsey and Tammy, who lived next door, decided to delve into the meaning of the apparent psychic phenomena. They soon found themselves drawn deeper and deeper into an intriguing mystery.

    Eleven-year-old Tina works hard to convince her family that they should make sacrifices to help the poor and needy children of the world.