Best Selling Books by Barbara Bottner

Two best friends take on the other''s opposite characteristics when they spend the night at each other''s house.

Ralph works up his courage for a confrontation with Mean Maxine.

Clarissa invites all of her stuffed animals to a tea party, but they refuse to attend because they think she has mistreated them.

Thinking the "Watch Out for Horrible Hannah!" sign on the front lawn refers to the new girl next door, Lucy and Toby set out to frighten her first.

Casey''s determination to be a ballet dancer teaches her a valuable secret about hard work.

Melissa and Sara, talented sixteen-year-olds lacking in self-esteem, think they have nothing in common, but they are both struggling to cope with the death of the woman who acted as a mother to them.

Nonsense poems and suggestions for humorous activities for children.

A dancing class is disrupted when Myra actually changes into the animals the other pupils are imitating.

Maisie''s first day of high school should be exciting, but all she wants is to escape. Her world is lonely and chaotic, with an abusive mother and a father who''s rarely there to help. So when Maisie, who finds refuge in her art, meets the spirited Rachel and her mother, a painter, she catches a glimpse of a very different world -- one full of life, creativity, and love -- and latches on. But as she discovers her strengths through Rachel''s family, Maisie, increasingly desperate, finds herself risking new friendships, and the very future she''s searching for.

In these two stories "Big Boss" Penny decides she needs a big sister and "Little Boss" Lizzie hunts for her lost Mickey Mouse ring.

Two boys get carried away imagining what they would do if they had a giant for a friend.

A school librarian encourages her students to make up stories, and teaches a lesson about bullying in the process.

Simplified Chinese edition of Miss Brooks Loves Books (And I Don''t), an Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010, by Barbara Bottner and Michael Emberley. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.