Most Popular Books by Barbara Willard

The Journal of the Famous Rowena Lamont is the secret diary - beginning before her own birth! - of this remarkable girl. She shares it only with her new-made friend, Kate, over a Christmas holiday when they both have to stay at their boarding school. Kate gasps at the details she reads in the Journal and laughs at and admires the fantastic conversations that flow from Rowena's lips. But, as time goes on, Kate becomes quietly worried and then alarmed at various turns of events. The book is record of a tragedy, but on the way there is comedy in abundance and the story has a pace and a warmth that will attract all Barbara Willard's admirers and many other readers besides.

The established patterns of the closely knit Tower family are disrupted by the arrival from Africa of a recently orphaned cousin whose strange visionary sense eventually wins her the highest honor the Tower cousins can bestow, and restores order to the family organization.

Colin thought the mouse in his pocket was just a stuffed one until it bit him, and then he had to make an important decision about the best home for a mouse and the proper use of a boy's pockets.