Best Selling Books by Elizabeth Levy

Being short and having moved four times in the last three years makes Sally defensive, so although she tries to help a classmate stand up to two bullies, she gets off to a bad start in her new school.

"Second-grader Brian and his sister Penny, a kindergartner who he calls Pea Brain, [try] to discover who is undermining School Spirit Week. Readers will have a good chance of solving this mystery, which features...the lively, but fundamentally good-natured, rivalry between Brian and Penny."—H.

While staying in Atlantic City for the summer, Lily Potter concocts her own tour of the city, a tour that includes the haunted side of town and the eerie stories and cycle of death surrounding the Gurney mansion.

In the sequel to Big Trouble in Little Twinsville, fourth grader Eve is dismayed when her school''s buddy project pairs her with one of her twin sisters, who are in kindergarten.

Chip, an invisible boy, and his friends solve the mystery of who took the school ball from the playground.

When someone takes Justin''s karate belt, his friends in Invisible Inc. try to determine a motive as they investigate the mystery.

Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother''s wedding to Max, but Amber''s father makes things complicated.

The schoolyard mystery -- the mystery of the missing dog -- The snack attack mystery --The creepy computer mystery.

Jill and Gwen do some sleuthing when Jill''s basset hound disappears.

After Fletcher, a salami-loving basset hound, is wrongly accused of eating a pet rabbit, he and his sidekick, Jasper the flea, must find the true culprit before Fletcher is sent back to the dog pound.

It''s Gwen and Jill to the rescue when someone tries to sabotage Fletcher the basset hound''s mission in space.

When Lucy enters junior high school, she finds out the hard way that putting herself on the line to impress new friends is a bad idea and can lead to trouble.

The new athlete in the gym seems to have a crush on Darlene, and despite the fact that the pretty gymnast insists she is not interested, the two get ready for their first date.

Undine''s friends try to console her when her favorite uncle dies and she is overcome by grief.

Gwen and Jill''s discovery of some mutilated library books strangely links up with a dog show in which they have entered their dog.

Everyone is thrilled when Dimitri Vickorskoff, the great Hungarian gymnastics coach, agrees to help out the Evergreen Gymnastics Academy, but Lauren is convinced that he makes her work harder than the others.

Cartoons.

When Jodi''s clowning interferes with her gymnastics, the coach gives her position to someone else, and it may be too late for her to win it back.

When her gymnastics team''s good luck charm disappears, Ti An tries to find out who took it in order to keep suspicion from tearing the team apart.

Details the battle waged in Congress by opposing lobbyists over financing the SST, a supersonic transport plane.

Over her bout with anorexia, Heidi Ferguson feels she is ready to compete again, and when she is picked for the Olympic team, she realizes her dream could come true. Original.

After Baron Frankenstein''s first attempt to create life produces a monster, it forces him to make it a beautiful women for its bride.

It''s summer vacation and super-sleuth Gwen is filming her own scary movie, a thriller about moldy salami that grows fangs and turns the entire town into zombies.

Gwen and Jill determine to win the weekly sandcastle contest on the beach but something always seems to go wrong.

Presents career biographies of men and women noted for their non-traditional approach to politics.

Cartoons.

Team members work together to help Cindi stay on the gymnastics team.

This paper evaluates the state of contact hypothesis research from a policy perspective. Building on Pettigrew and Tropp''s (2006) influential meta-analysis, we assemble all intergroup contact studies that feature random assignment and delayed outcome measures, of which there are 27 in total, nearly two-thirds of which were published following the original review. We find the evidence from this updated dataset to be consistent with Pettigrew and Tropp''s (2006) conclusion that contact "typically reduces prejudice." At the same time, our meta-analysis suggests that contact''s effects vary, with interventions directed at ethnic or racial prejudice generating substantially weaker effects. Moreover, our inventory of relevant studies reveals important gaps, most notably the absence of studies addressing adults'' racial or ethnic prejudice, an important limitation for both theory and policy. We also call attention to the lack of research that systematically investigates the scope conditions suggested by Allport (1954) under which contact is most influential. We conclude that these gaps in contact research must be addressed empirically before this hypothesis can reliably guide policy.