Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Girls & Women

A small child and a cuckoo for a cuckoo clock become unlikely friends, when at night the clock transports her to magical places. "Stopped " says Miss Tabitha, throwing up her hands. "Impossible " "I mean cuckoo has stopped," the girl says. "The clock is going on, but the cuckoo isn't telling the hours." "What can we do?" says Miss Tabitha. "Should we send for the watch-maker?" But Miss Grizzel shakes her head, and says, "That would be worse than useless, Tabitha. Were we to search the world over, we would find no one to put it right. Fifty years and more, that clock has never missed an...

Young actress Ruby Parker takes on her biggest, bravest challenge yet - in her return to Hollywood

Fresh from her success in the production of Spotlight The Musical, Ruby and her closest friends are heading off to Hollywood to audition for parts in the film version of the show.

After Ruby's last experience in Tinseltown, she's scared inside but totally ready to take on the biz and all that entails. What she doesn't anticipate are the dramas that begin to unfold closer to home...

Straight-A student and "brainiac" of the group, Aaliyah is an only child living with her father, the deputy Chief of Police in Los Angeles. Even though Aaliyah isn't interested in singing, she's shown a remarkable, natural talent since childhood. It takes a bit of persuading...

It's not easy being the popular girl's best friend. But for Selma, it's better than being the geeky nobody she was before she and Jodie started hanging out. Most of the time. But when the girls spend a week together at Jodie's cottage, Selma starts to seriously think about making some new friends. Jodie's self-centeredness...

It's not easy being the popular girl's best friend. But for Selma, it's better than being the geeky nobody she was before she and Jodie started hanging out. Most of the time. But when the girls spend a week together at Jodie's cottage, Selma starts to seriously think about making some new friends. Jodie's self-centeredness...

Deenie's mother wants her to be a model, with her face on magazine covers--maybe even in the movies--but Deenie wants to spend Saturdays with her friends Janet and Midge, tracking Harvey Grabowsky, the captain of the football team, around Woolworth's. She wants to be a cheerleader, too, and go to the seventh-grade mixer to hear Buddy Brader play his drums.

Instead, Deenie is diagnosed with scoliosis. And that means body stockings to squeeze into, a roomful of strangers to face,...

Deenie's mother wants her to be a model, with her face on magazine covers--maybe even in the movies--but Deenie wants to spend Saturdays with her friends Janet and Midge, tracking Harvey Grabowsky, the captain of the football team, around Woolworth's. She wants to be a cheerleader, too, and go to the seventh-grade mixer to hear Buddy Brader play his drums.

Instead, Deenie is diagnosed with scoliosis. And that means body stockings to squeeze into, a roomful of strangers to face,...