Ann M Martin

In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.

Even though Missy Piggle-Wiggle is preoccupied with repairing her Upside-Down House that was damaged in a storm, she always finds time to administer her magical cures that rid children in Little Spring Valley of their unwanted habits and misbehavior.

In this wickedly funny and suspenseful sequel to the award-winning The Doll People, Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft come face to face with Mean Mimi, an evil princess doll, who threatens to take over all of doll world.
 
Annabelle and Tiffany are best friends who've enjoyed a heap of adventure and mystery since they met in the Palmers house at 26 Wetherby Lane. When they accidentally hitch a ride to Kate's school in her backpack,...

Things go awry when Annabelle, a fragile, timid porcelain doll who lives in a Victorian dollhouse, tries to share some of her Christmas traditions with best friend Tiffany, a sturdy, adventurous plastic doll who lives in a modern dollhouse.

Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.

A graphic-novel rendering of the third entry in the Baby-sitters Club spin-off series finds Kristy's younger sister, Karen, trying to form a cat-sitting club with her friends.

Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different – not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single father.
When a storm hits their rural town, rivers overflow,

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When Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey, the members of the Baby-sitters Club, each receive mysterious calls while they are working, they decide to find out who is responsible.

"Claudia has always been the most creative kid in her class... until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different: She wears hippie clothes and has multiple earrings, and she's the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Claudia is a great artist, too, but thinks she's wasting her artistic talent with The Baby-sitters Club. When Claudia starts spending more time with Ashley and missing BSC meetings, it becomes clear that Claudia...

Hannie, la mejor amiga de Karen, tiene un adorable gatito. Su vecina Amanda también tiene un gato, y Karen tiene al viejo y gruñón Bubu. Ahora que todas tienen gatos, a Karen se le ocurre una idea genial: ¡quiere fundar el Club de los Gatitos!¿Qué harán en el club? Karen no puede hacer de niñera como Kristy, su hermana mayor... pero ¡puede cuidar gatitos! ¿Querrá alguien contratar a Karen y a sus amigas? Karen's best friend Hannie...