New Releases by Betsy Haynes

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 Jana is chosen to be a "buddy" to one of the new homeless students, she feels honored and can''t wait to show the new girl, Lizzie Flagg, around and introduce her to the rest of the Fabulous Five, but everytime Jana tries to befriend her, Lizzie seems rude and unfriendly.

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.

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.

While working on a genealogy project of family living class, Melanie uncovers a shocking secret about her past.

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.

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.

Jana Morgan''s suspicions that Laura McCall wants to steal her boyfriend, Randy Kirwan, gets both her and Randy in the hospital.

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.

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

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.

Taffy Sinclair is sending secret admirer notes to Jana Morgan to get her in trouble, but Jana and her friends cook up a plot to put Taffy in her place.

Melanie talks The Fabulous Five into joining a new modeling school that Taffy Sinclair has described to her. Soon Melanie is spending more time with Taffy than with the Five.

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

Telling Taffy''s version of the story about her rivalry with The Fabulous Five, the ninth Taffy Sinclair title opens during the last week of school at Mark Twain Elementary. When Taffy''s diary is removed from her locker, the whole sixth grade learns the truth about her.

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.

A science lesson with a computer turns into a romance machine disaster for Jana Morgan, the envy of every girl in the sixth grade.

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.

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.

Relates the trials of a thirteen-year-old slave girl at the beginning of the Civil War.