Best Selling Books by Mary Stolz

A nineteen-year-old reflects on her time in private school, when a coarse, hostile, brilliant daughter of a cleaning woman attended, and of the effect the girl had on those at the school, including the nineteen-year-old''s idealistic older brother.

Can feline detective Eileen O''Kelly crack the case that has left the Boston police baffled and wringing their paws? Will she be able to track down the murderer who did away with celebrated chef Madame Jewel?

Describes the night-time activities of the hermit crab, horse conch, heron, loggerhead turtle, and other animals that inhabit the seashore.

Maximilian, the Chihuahua, longs for some adventures of his own after listening to Siri the cat''s, and he persuades Asa the mouse to join him in this sequel to Siri the Conquistador.

Dody spends her senior year hating her small town, impatient and embarrassed with her lower middle class family, bored with her beau, and dreaming of a way to escape a future as a Plattstown housewife. When she has an opportunity to go away as a governess for a problem child in Oyster Bay, she leaves Plattstown and learns a great deal.

They were known at school as the beautiful girl and her plain friend, only her fiancé could never believe his girl was the plain one. Includes eight more stories dealing with social problems and romance.

Grandfather made everything that worked well once into a rule and thought change would be very bad until Tom Kitten showed up one night.

A seventeen-year-old boy, treated like a child, is unable to communicate or sympathize with his widowed father, but a summer''s friendship with a girl and an unfortunate accident help him to understand, request, and accept his parent''s difficult expression of love.

Polly spends the summer trying to fill the void created when her best friend moves to California.

Fifteen-year-old Anny, who tells the story, has done all her living vicariously in the pages of Dickens, Keats, and Rupert Brooke. Falling into intense puppy-love with one of her mother''s boarders tumbles her into reality.

Mrs. Weed, a former teacher, and her dog and cat enjoy their daily routine--with occasional disruptions--throughout each season of the year.

Two mice, on friendly terms with the storeroom cat, share his anxiety about dogs, particularly when they hear the store-owners plan to get a dog named Maximilian.

In New York City during the Depression, fourteen-year-old Ivy tries to cope with feelings of not belonging in her elegant private school and with her father''s losing his job.

An overprotected unpopular sixteen-year-old girl travels alone for the first time to spend the summer at her aunt and uncle''s Maine hotel. Here she joins a group of college student help and, as a member of the group, takes a big step toward confidence and maturity.

A young girl''s persistent overtures to a new neighbor result in friendship.

Deputy Jack Shep, the laziest police dog to ever wear a badge, is called upon to investigate a wave of burglaries in the sleepy village of Canoville.