New Releases by Betsy Haynes

Keith Masterson, who has been Beth Barry''s boyfriend since the sixth grade, decides that he wants to end their relationship. Not sure how to end it, he goes to Jana Morgan for help.

Melanie receives two invitations to the Valentine dance at school. Will she wind up with the right Valentine?

Beth uses Shawnie''s credit card to buy new clothes to wear on Wakeman Junior High''s new cable TV show, and soon her debt becomes larger than ever.

Working on the homework hot line is no longer fun for Christie Winchell when a mysterious seventh grade boy starts calling to brag about pranks he is going to pull.

When Melanie Edward''s mother decides to start a teen taxi service for students at Wakefield Junior High, Melanie is horrified. Not only is she going to be the laughtingstock of the school, but because she has to ride along, her social life will be ruined.

Beth Barry gives the audition of her life when she tries out for Wakeman Junior High''s Halloween variety show, and she is devastated when Laura McCall, the snooty leader of the Fantastic Foursome is chosen to play the beautiful witch while Beth is cast as the warty old hag.

Taffy has just landed the role in the TV movie about a beautiful girl whose life at school is made miserable by friends who despise her.

Inspired by the discovery of a time capsule buried in 1918 by a budding thirteen-year-old feminist, and by the membership of her boyfriend in a boys-only club, Katie Shannon sets out to teach her peers a lesson in gender equality.

Jana and her boyfriend Randy are competing in a popularity contest together. She also seems to be the object of seventh-grade bully Geena.

Shawnie Pendergast runs away from home and wants to hide out in Katie Shannon''s house.

When Beth tells her boyfriend, Keith, that she''s busy with rehearsals for the school play, he starts going out with Christie, one of her best friends.

While at the animal shelter searching for a puppy for Christmas, Melanie Edwards discovers that all of the older animals will be put to sleep if they aren''t adopted by Christmas Eve.

Christie is too busy to go steady with anyone. But can she convince Jon that a boy and girl can be best friends without getting serious?

When snooty Laura McCall begins bragging about her big slumber party and invites everyone but The Fabulous Five, Beth decides to launch a countercampaign.

Katie Shannon''s mother turns to Katie for advice, and disaster strikes. What worked for Katie in her own romance with Tony Calcaterra turns into a fiasco for her mother.

When her seventh-grade friends in the Fabulous Five seem to be ignoring her, Melanie tries to prove how popular she is.

Jana Morgan and her club, The Fabulous Five, set out to uncover the identity of Jana''s secret admirer.

One of five best friends is nominated for seventh-grade president.

Jane and Taffy find a baby abandoned on the front steps of their school and become overnight celebrities.

Jana finds a wallet but decides to return it to where she found it - that''s when Taffy sees her and blackmails her into becoming her personal slave.

Lorna Markham and Scotti Wheeler are next-door neighbors and best friends. And they each share the same problem: their mothers. Lorna''s mother nags her about her schoolwork, wondering why she can''t be more like Scotti. And Scotti''s mother nags her about her eating habits, telling her to follow Lorna''s healthy example. The girls begin to think that, somewhere along the line, they ended up with the wrong mothers. And that gives them a terrific idea. They''ll swap mothers! What could be more perfect? Both mothers agree, and soon Laura and Scotti are on a great new adventure with each other''s families. Until a surprising thing happens--they each begin to suspect they''ve made a big mistake.

When gorgeous, conceited Taffy Sinclair wins a part on a television soap opera, eleven-year-old Jana''s jealousy skyrockets until she begins to mix television fantasy with real life.

Embarrassing moments at school and home show a young girl that everyone has faults, some that others can''t accept.

Unhappy after his family''s move, Neil finds himself more and more drawn to Jeremy Pimm and his eerie mansion until the sinister shadows of the house threaten to control him entirely.

Charley''s summer at the beach promises to be uneventful until the ghost of a sailor who died in 1712 persuades him to help dig for buried treasure.

A fourteen-year-old boy who signs on with the Continental Army is in the Long Island Sound area to foil the progress of the British.