Jennifer L. Holm

Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.

In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.

It's summer, and Sunny is bored, most of her friends are out of town, her mom wants her to baby-sit way more than Sunny wants to baby-sit, and there's nothing good on TV. The only place that's cool (in a not-boring sense) and cool (in a not-hot sense) is the community pool, where Sunny loves to go... and loves it even more when she is offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she is flinging fries and serving soft ice-cream like a pro... with the assistance...

Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.

When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.--

As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.

"It's Valentine's Day, a day for romance, candy, and the school dance."--Source other than the Library of Congress.

Sunny's just made it to middle school and it's making her life very confusing, all her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends, because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...

An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl's slumber party.

During summer vacation, Babymouse heads to the beach for a fun-filled week of sun, sand, and surfing where she encounters a shark, which puts quite a damper on her dreams of being a surfing star.