Best Selling Books by Sharon Dennis

The girls from Alma Stephens and the boys from Ardsley Academy are joining forces to put on a rock musical, but Amy is playing opposite Lisa''s pen pal Rob.

Lisa hasn''t been the same lately and Shanon sets out to find out why.

A trip to England provides the forum for adventure, especially on the part of Amy, who has written a song with her pen pal John but who risks losing his friendship when she sings her words during an exclusive performance.

Black Eye presents domestic violence witnessed by a child and its impact. Alternately dramatic and surreal, the poems also lend insight to a complex African American identity.

A mother shares with her daughter stories of the generations of women in their family as each individual has passed along the tales and a glittering necklace to her own daughter. Includes notes on the author''s exploration of her ancestry.

When Georgia, an eight-year-old girl, cuts her hair very short and plays baseball the children in her new school ask her if she''s a boy.

Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family''s Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.

Kristy is growing up and now she has her first crush on a boy! As she feels more and more embarrassed by her developing body, she joins the school play so she has a reason to miss swim practice. Anything to avoid putting on her bathing suit helps. Then she learns that the boy she likes is also a swimmer--and he''s on a rival team that The Waves are facing at an upcoming meet. Kristy wants to see him, and she also wants to show The Barracudas just who the best swimming team is!

For use in schools and libraries only. After his father learns that he is to be sold and flees North, Corey, a nine-year-old slave boy, and his mother soon follow him to freedom via the Underground Railroad in 1857. .

Arden is proud to be the jockey for Glory--an abused thoroughbred filly who recovered at the girls'' grandparents'' farm for sick and abandoned animals, but snobby Tiffany may ruin Arden''s chance to shine.

A collection of African American tales includes stories of voodoo magic and evil magicians, of men and women conjurers, and of children changed into bugs and birds