New Releases by Mary Stolz

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.

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.

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