New Releases by Mary Stolz

Roman über Irrungen, Liebe und Identitätssuche einer Lernschwester.

Mady Guthrie and Sue Ellen Forrest live across the hall from each other in a racially-mixed neighborhood.

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.

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.

A portrait of a family as winter changes to spring: Cassie, unwilling to solve her conflict between honesty and tact; her older sister, flirtatious and vain, self-confident and selfish; her college-age brother, looking for love; their mother, lonely for her children''s childhood; and their father, only an unwelcome visitor when he returns from business trips.

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.

Small twin mice, Bob and Ozzie, are chosen to bell the house cat.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.