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On Your Toes, Susie (Susie the Young Ballerina #4)
by Lee Wyndham"I've waited three whole years for these pink toe shoes!" No wonder Susie is excited. At last she is to dance on her toes! Surely this will be her happiest year at ballet school. Perhaps she will even win the dance scholarship! Then the new girl comes--unpleasant Mimi who is such a fine dancer. Because of Mimi and her pet monkey, everything seems to go wrong for Susie. Especially when Susie sprains her ankle--just before the big recital. There is a surprise ending to this delightful story. It proves that nothing can stop a girl who wants to dance as much as Susie does.
Pagan the Black
by Dorothy Potter BenedictSandy is determined that his colt will not be shot as his mother had been. With determination, patience, and respect, Sandy trains and befriends a horse that others are convinced will be a man-killer. When a crisis arises, Sandy and Pagan have the chance to save lives and be named heroes--but only if Pagan's isn't the vicious man-killer that others claim he is.
Fabulous
by Dorothy Potter Benedict"Fabulous!" she said softly and at the sound of her voice the pointed ears twitched slightly. "Fabulous," she repeated, inching forward, stretching out her hand, slowly, slowly till the tips of her fingers touched his shoulder. Under her touch she felt his flesh quiver, his whole body draw into a tight knot of fear. She drew her hand away. I won't make you be touched today. You're too new in this world for human hands. And in that instant she seemed close to the Nature that had produced this wonder.
Bandoleer (Seaton Trilogy #3)
by Dorothy Potter BenedictFrom the Book: Pagan the Black was determined that his offspring would be born free. And so he was. On the side of a mountain on a bed of soft pine needles, Sunrise the mare gave birth to the colt Bandoleer. This birth also marked a turning point in the lives of Sandy and Mistie Seaton. As Bandoleer grew into a fine spirited horse, untamed by human hands, Sandy and Mistie passed from childhood into the world of adults. And when the time came for Bandoleer to trust man and acknowledge his power, so Sandy was also ready to accept the responsibilities of manhood. In the end it was an act of courage on the part of Bandoleer that forced the young man to admit his true feelings for Mistie. This fine novel by the author of Pagan the Black and Fabulous brings to a conclusion the story which she started with her two previous books. Although complete in its own right it is also the last of a trilogy. Mrs. Benedict takes the reader back to a familiar setting: the Seaton ranch in Montana. Pagan and Fabulous still play an important part in this story, and the heroic conclusion of Pagan's life as set forth in the last pages of this book will not be forgotten by any reader.
Where Love Rules
by Elizabeth Nell DubusCaroline and Beau fall in love at first sight in their teens. Caroline's parents, bitter and snobbish are determined that they never marry. This is the story of how they manage, finally, to be together after both marry and lose spouses to illness.
Bluegrass Champion (Famous Horse Stories)
by Dorothy LyonsAfter their parents' deaths, two sisters are determined to fulfill their father's dream of turning their farm into a well-known name in the Saddlebred world. Gail Carter's lovely chestnut filly looks like a world beater, yet when she enters the ring never places. Judy's gelding, Harlequin Hullabaloo, is perfect in Judy's eyes, yet no judge can see past his colorful pinto markings. With their two horses, one whose chances are unpromising and the other an obvious winner, they set out to be champions. Unfortunately, the winner isn't as obvious as she seems, and an unpromising horse becomes an astounding winner when Judy Carter breaks the prejudice against pinto Saddlebreds and has a chance to win the World Five-gaited Championships with her wildly colored Hullabaloo.
The Last Eagle
by Daniel MannixSurvival--against the hostility of man and beast, and against the dreadful odds of Nature--is the theme of this magnificent book, a beautifully written fictionalised biography. It tells the story, from timorous infancy to glorious maturity, of an American bald eagle. Daniel Mannix captures all the poetry, romance, and glory of an eagle's life, while telling his reader how it must feel to be a fledgling struggling for food, a young bird just learning to hunt, and finally what it must be like to reign as acknowledged lord of the skies. The eagle of which the author writes may well be the last; the bald eagles have been badly depleted by hunters, vandals, and egg collectors. THE LAST EAGLE is both a poignant and fascinating story and a plea for conservation.
The Nightmare Room: Books 1-2-3
by R. L. StineIn "Don't Forget Me!" A sister wishes her brother ill and lives to regret her impulsive words. In "Locker 13" A boy who has always been very average suddenly becomes VERY lucky. Too lucky? And what will be the price that he is required to pay for his good fortune? In "My Name Is Evil" a girl is thought to have become an evil witch on her thirteenth birthday. But is she really the source of the accidents happening to, and harming her best friends?
The Partridge Family (The Partridge Family #1)
by Michael AvalloneCan America's top rock group prevail against the evil machinations of a fat but deadly enemy agent- without blowing their cool? If any group can do it, the Partridge family can! They're a high-voltage six-pack of talent and energy--five groovy kids plus one beautiful, mini-skirted Mom--and they've settled down in the Top Ten for., a long, long stay. Even the coolest clan in rock gets put up-tight when a sinister spymaster hunts them down. He's after an international secret they don't even know they're carrying, and he'll stop at nothing. But little does he know what lies ahead when he tangles with that all-American super-singing weapon, THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY
Rattlesnake Romeo
by Joy WellmanVicki Lyn Robinson, 49, wasn't the type of woman to go missing. The divorced mother of two teenage girls, she was a successful realtor and steady churchgoer. When her boyfriend reported her disappearance on June 27, 1998, friends and family feared the worst. Her house in a Tampa, Florida suburb was empty. Her younger daughter Valessa, 15, was also gone without a trace. RATTLESNAKE Valessa was a troubled teen with a trouble-making boyfriend, Adam "Rattlesnake" Davis, 19, a drug dealer with a record for burglary and auto theft. She'd last been seen with him and his buddy Jon Whispel, also 19. Now all three were on the run. BUSTED A multi-state dragnet for the fugitive teen trio ended in their capture in Texas after a high-speed car chase. They confessed that they'd been tripping on acid when Valessa had suggested they kill her mom for trying to break up her romance with Davis. Davis then fatally stabbed Vicki Robinson. This is their story-a tale of the kind of real-life terror that can come out of nowhere and destroy a family forever.
The Golden Cup (Werner Family Saga #2)
by Belva PlainHennie is the middle child of parents transplanted unwillingly from the reconstructed south. She feels unadored, a disappointment, to her parents. She is not captivating, and is shy and bookish. When she sees a young man rescue an old woman from a burning building, she is immediately entranced. Though her parents are unhappy with her interest in a man beneath her, they must, when he proposes to her allow them to marry. Seven months later she has a son. Throughout their marriage Hennie is concerned by her husband's tendency to be a flirt, but is happy for the life that they have. When his flirtations are proved not so harmless, Hennie's life falls apart. And World War I brings even more tragedy. This is a story of enduring love and determination.
Leave It to Beany (Beany Malone Series, #3)
by Lenora Mattingly WeberBeany Malone liked to manage things. She thought she could even manage Sheila McBride when Sheila appeared at the big friendly house on Barberry Street. The Malones had invited their "much removed" Irish cousin, whom they had never seen, because she was an orphan and lonely in America. Beany pictured her as being wistful and starry-eyed like Peg o' My Heart, and thought she would be as eager to share their interests as they were to include her in their merry circle. Pretty Mary Fred would take Sheila under her wing at college, literary Johnny would discuss Irish poets and plays with her, and Beany, whose warm heart could play odd pranks on her practical mind, resolved that Sheila must always wear gay clothes, sparkle with wit, and never do household chores. It never occurred to them that Sheila might have her own ideas and plans, and the character (Beany called it stubbornness) to carry them out. But Beany plunged with headlong enthusiasm into a newspaper job while still in high school, pleased to have something to take her mind from her troubles with her best beau, and Sheila's stubbornness. One afternoon she brought home from the paper a stray baby, name and age unknown, as anyone else might bring in a stray kitten! The baby played havoc with the household routine, and caused so many surprising complications that sometimes Beany forgot to worry about having lost the charm bracelet that Norbett had given her. Meanwhile troubles multiplied, and Beany found that trying to manage everything and everybody was a big job.
Freshman Dorm (Freshman Dorm #1)
by Linda A. Cooney(From The Back Cover) K.C. Angeletti President, future business leaders, 1,2,3,4 . . .beautiful, cool, intense. Crystal ball: Business tycoon, president of the United States. Will anything stop her from getting ahead? Faith Crowley All American. .. . smart, everyone's best friend, sensible. Crystal ball: U. of S. with Brooks (class hunk), then happily ever after. How long can something so perfect last? Winnie Gottlieb "She'll try anything once." Boys, brains, trouble. Crystal ball: Men, men, men . . . Will win the nobel prize--then lose it. Dean's List . . . or dropout?
Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All (Encyclopedia Brown #12)
by Donald J. SobolWhy is every crook and bully in Idaville brought to justice? Who is the secret brains behind the town's police force? Ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown! He's back and no "' mystery baffles him. Once again the boy detective is challenged by an array of crooked characters who attempt to puzzle him-and you-as they leave behind them clues to the solution of their crimes.
The Chocolate Cat Caper (A Chocoholic Mystery #1)
by Joanna CarlAfter giving up her career as a Texas trophy wife, Lee McKinney finds herself in a Michigan resort town, keeping the books for her aunt Nettie's luxury chocolate business. But she soon discovers that her new life isn't all truffles and bonbons. Clementine Ripley, the defense attorney everyone loves to hate, is throwing a party that calls for several thousand dollars' worth of custom chocolates-some made in the image of her champion cat. Lee jumps at the job, but sweet success takes a bitter turn when someone adds an extra ingredient-cyanide-to one of their delicious chocolates and it finds its way into Ripley's mouth. Now it's up to Lee to figure out who tampered with the family recipe before she and her aunt end up behind not-so-chocolate bars. INCLUDES YUMMY CHOCOLATE TRIVIA
Squeeze (X-Files #4)
by Ellen SteiberWhen FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully pursue a serial killer, they discover that all evidence points to a murderer who has been squeezing through impossibly small air ducts and chimneys since 1903.
Freshman Dreams (Freshman Dorm #5)
by Linda A. CooneyWinnie's summer love is in town. Can she choose between him and Josh? Faith is happy with her life, until her ex-boyfriend shows interest in her roommate. Lauren is taking her life into her own hands. Can she handle the responsibility? KC is thrilled to pose for the university calendar Will the Instant fame change her life? (The girls of Freshman Dorm are back in Freshman Dreams, the gripping fifth book in the new series about three best friends and their freshman year in college
The House on Bostwick Square
by Velda JohnstonIt was in the 1880s that Laura Harmon, adopted daughter of a Brooklyn evangelist, eloped with a young Englishman, Richard Parrington. Richard was handsome, high-spirited, and charming. He was a "remittance man," paid a monthly sum by his rich London parents to stay out of England. He told Laura his family had lost all patience with him because of his periodic gambling-a weakness that, he felt sure, he could conquer for her sake. As much as she loved him, Laura gradually sensed that some unnamed evil-something far worse than a compulsion to gamble-hovered over him and their otherwise happy marriage. And when Richard died in a mysterious plunge from the tracks of an elevated Manhattan railway, she felt that the shadowy evil finally had claimed him. Alone in the world and unable to find a safe place to leave her six-year-old daughter Lily, while she worked at whatever low-paying jobs were open to her, Laura turned to her little daughter's rich grandparents for at least temporary refuge, even though they had never acknowledged Laura's existence. From her meager funds she booked third- class passage for herself and Lily, and sent a telegram to Sir Joseph Parrington announcing their arrival. She was unwanted and unwelcome, but she was determined to survive in spite of her enemies. Here in London she could search for the reason that lay behind her husband's exile and suicide -the secret that had marked her for murder.
Freshman Loves (Freshman Dorm #7)
by Linda A. CooneyMelissa, Winnie's roommate, is in love with Brooks. She's never been happier until romance threatens the track scholarship she needs to stay in college. Will Melissa give up Brooks to stay on course? It's KC's second chance to join elite Tri Beta sorority, and she's determined not to blow it. But Marielle has different plans. Lauren's boyfriend Dash is full of surprises - including the fact that he's not exactly who he claims to be. Winnie's's been dumped by Travis, and Josh is seeing another girl. She couldn't make a bigger mess of things. Or could she? The girls of Freshman Dorm are back in Freshman Loves, the exciting seventh book in the new series about three best friends and their freshman year at college.
Freshman Secrets (Freshman Dorm #8)
by Linda A. CooneyWinnie's flipping out! She's lost Josh, she's flunking her classes, and her friends have dropped her. Will someone hear her cry for help before it's too late? A gorgeous movie star making a film on campus has fallen for Faith. She knows it's a fling-but that's just what she's looking for. KC gets a bit part in the film-as a "bored beauty. "Does it prove She's the shallow socialite Winniecalls her? The girls of Freshman Dorm are back in Freshman Secrets, the fabulous eighth book in the hit series about three best friends and their freshman year at college.
The Arizona Clan
by Zane GreyWhen Dodge Mercer arrived in town, he headed out to the Lilley place to find work. On his way there, he met Nan, the oldest Lilley girl. And he fell in love. He met her family, got friendly with them, and became the target of a man who wants Nan to marry him, even though she doesn't want that.
The Christmas Horse (Tack Ranch #2)
by Glenn Balch"He's no good. Not with a wild horse like King for a sire!" That's what Ben Darby's father thinks. But Ben believes in the little black colt. And he takes on the job of breaking and training the son of the wild stallion. It isn't easy. When Ben leaves the ranch to go to school in the city, the colt, Inky, goes too. Ben has to earn the money for Inky's keep. He has to get up winter mornings at 4:30 to ride him. Does Inky really have the stuff? Is he all that Ben believes him to be? The test comes the day Johnny Horn rides for the calf- roping championship - on Ben Darby's Christmas Horse.
The Little Cow and the Turtle
by Meindert DejongThe Little Cow finds chewing cud and lying around in the pasture dull. So, she searches out adventure. She meets hobos, carries bicycles for children wandering in the woods, and saves a turtle from an oncoming train.
I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth The Trip.
by John DonovanOne of the most celebrated and discussed teen-age novels of recent years, I'll GET THERE. IT BETTER BE WORTH THE TRIP reveals the soul of a boy on the brink of manhood. After the death of his guardian, teen-ager Davy Ross moves to the New York City apartment of his mother, whose bitterness has driven her to alcoholism. With Davy comes his dachshund buddy, Fred-his only friend. At school, however, he meets Douglas Altschuler, who shares with Davy the terror and loneliness of a broken home. Drawn closer and closer by their need for love and companionship, their relationship culminates in an unforeseen moment of open sexuality. The painful aftermath drives Davy from childhood toward the newworld of maturity.