New Releases by Claudia Mills

Mischievous Dinah struggles to remain the center of attention when her baby brother comes home from the hospital and her best friend gets a lead role in the class play.

A visit to her cousin Amy-Claire helps five-year-old Rachel discover the joys of being a big sister.

Dinah Seabrooke, now in her first year of middle school, struggles to become a big fish in what seems like an ocean--and in the process discovers the value of recycling and of friendship with the elderly.

Driven by overachieving parents and swept away by the moneymaking schemes of an eager new friend, eleven-year-old Cally finds herself meeting everyone''s expectations but her own.

Melanie gets carried away with her good ideas, whether it''s an idea for a worm fight or for tying shoelaces together.

When fifth-grader Jessica discovers that her parents adopted her because they mistakenly believed they could not have children, she wonders if they love her less than the brother and sister who were born later.

When her look-alike younger sister Lucy gets promoted into her fifth grade class, Cynthia feels that she must fight to retain her own individuality.

When her older sister goes to New York to be a ballet dancer, ten-year-old Lindy chafes at the dullness of life with her grandparents in a small Iowa town.

Cuban, Catholic, and poor, 14-year-old Luisa Ruiz wants the American Dream and finds it the form of a young WASP with money and sophistication. To win his love, she lies about her background, and then discovers he''s not what she wants after all.