New Releases by Patricia Hermes

To prove to her parents that she is grown up enough to babysit, Alex tries to stay out of trouble for two weeks.

Cousins Meghann and Marcie dread the thought of spending the summer with their cousin William almost as much as they dread feeding one of their clients, a snake named Althea.

KT''s friendship with her two best friends is threatened when KT is selected for the talented and gifted program at school.

A school project propels Brady Abbot and her grandfather on a search for her father who left them six years earlier.

Abandoned by their mother after the death of their father, three youngsters are determined to keep their situation a secret so that the authorities will not split them up and send them to foster homes.

Fortælling. Allison er hemmeligt forelsket i David, men han har en kæreste - hendes bedste veninde Leslie.

Despite the assurances of her best friend, Leslie, fifteen-year-old Allison is convinced that she is too ordinary and unattractive to be special to anyone, especially when the boy she likes most of all suddenly becomes involved with Leslie.

Tracy never meant to hurt her best friend.

A fourteen-year-old girl living with her father describes becoming an incest victim.

Emily likes to play baseball and tease her brother, but her happy life is interrupted when her brother has a fatal accident.

Terrified that the death of the grandmother who was their guardian will separate them, twelve-year-old Mark decides to run away with his retarded younger brother.

A 10-year-old girl staying with her grandparents for the summer is appalled to discover that her parents'' prolonged stay abroad means that she must start in a new school and somehow hide the fact that she is an epileptic.