During Laurel's thirteenth summer, she babysits the baby of a sculptor for whom she develops romantic feelings, only to make the shocking discovery that he is not what he seems to be.

Baby-Snatcher

Teen & Young Adult

Terris, Susan

Literature & Fiction

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Eleven-year-old Callie tries to cope with her new responsibilities when the family's changed circumstances force them to move to a new San Francisco neighborhood and leave her in charge of her younger brother

Latchkey Kids

Children's Books

Valerie Myerson, a twelve-year-old author, is disillusioned by the adult world when her parents, her editor, and her classmates refuse to take her or her success seriously

Author! Author!

Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.Yearning to attend college and work for the women's suffrage movement, eighteen-year-old Nell feels trapped by her parents' inability to manage the farm without her and seeks refuge in the creation of a quilt, in a story set at the turn of the century

Nell's Quilt

Finding life disappointingly ordinary after her mother remarries, 13-year-old Rachel tries to impose her view of family life on her step relatives.

No Scarlet Ribbons

A young girl struggles to assert herself and to solve a mystery involving a missing octopus and a school full of suspects

Octopus Pie

During the summer she works with polio victims, Jeannie meets a young climber who, like herself, needs to overcome a handicap and to understand the meaning of taking risks.

Wings and Roots

It's 1899--the last year of the old century--a time of anticipation and change. For eighteen-year-old Nell Edmonds, however, the "turn" into 1900 is an ominous and terrifying period. Nell had hoped to follow in the footsteps of Grandmother Shaw by going to college, perhaps even fighting for women's suffrage in Boston. Instead, they offer her another way to leave the farm: her cousin, Anson, has asked for her hand in marriage. At first, Nell is outraged, but then she realizes that for her parents' sake she must accept Anson's proposal. In the months before the wedding, Nell takes refuge in making a crazy quilt from Grandmother Shaw's scrap fabrics. Never one for needlework, she surprises everyone with her new self-discipline. Yet her family and friends are worried: Nell is obsessed with creating the quilt and she seems to be retreating deep into a world of her own, where no one can help her. Susan Terris is the author of numerous books for young readers. Her more recent novel, "The Latchkey Kids," was praised by The Voice for Youth Advocates for its "well-written, realistic dialogue and situations." Ms. Terris lives in San Francisco.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Rachel encourages her mother's marriage to a junior high school teacher, but then regrets the loss of her mother's undivided attention when the marriage takes place

Avon/Books

When Amanda's brother, the redhead, gets so much attention that no one answers her questions she decides to stop talking entirely.

Amanda, the panda, and the redhead

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Baby-Snatcher

Latchkey Kids

Author! Author!

Nell's Quilt

No Scarlet Ribbons

Octopus Pie

Wings and Roots

Nell's Quilt

No Scarlet Ribbons

Amanda, the panda, and the redhead