Ann M Martin
2) A Dog's Life
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
“I can’t speak for all dogs. Not all dogs are alike. And most certainly, not all dogs have the same experiences. . . .”
Squirrel is not like most dogs. Born a stray, she must make her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal. Her life story, in her own words, is marked by loss, but also by an inspiring instinct to survive. And when it seems she will roam the woods and country...
Squirrel is not like most dogs. Born a stray, she must make her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal. Her life story, in her own words, is marked by loss, but also by an inspiring instinct to survive. And when it seems she will roam the woods and country...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Four generations. Four girls. One family.
An amazing new four-book series from Ann M. Martin.
In 1930, Abby Nichols is eight, and can't imagine what her future holds. The best things today would be having a dime for the fair, keeping her Pops from being angry, and saving up eighty-seven cents to surprise her little sister with a tea set for Christmas.
But Abby's world is changing fast. Soon there will be new siblings to take care...
An amazing new four-book series from Ann M. Martin.
In 1930, Abby Nichols is eight, and can't imagine what her future holds. The best things today would be having a dime for the fair, keeping her Pops from being angry, and saving up eighty-seven cents to surprise her little sister with a tea set for Christmas.
But Abby's world is changing fast. Soon there will be new siblings to take care...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Sutcliff's grave.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's fun to be a Baby-sitters Little Sister! We Heart Cats! Karen's best friend Hannie just got a new kitten. Now all her friends have cats. And Karen has a great idea. She can start a club like her big sister Kristy. It will be a Kittycat Club! What will the club do? Karen can't baby-sit like Kristy...but she can cat-sit! Will anyone want Karen as a cat-sitter? They'd better-running a club is hard work!" --
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 21
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Mallory finds a real challenge in babysitting for the troublesome Arnold twins.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Convinced there is a ghost in her house, Dawn sets out to investigate the spooky noises and happenings in her home.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Claudia takes a baby-sitting job looking after Betsy, a girl who is known for her practical jokes, and when one of Betsy's pranks results in a broken leg for Claudia, her baby-sitting days may be through.
Author
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1977 in Princeton, Dana's daughter seven-year-old Francie is struggling to keep her dyslexia a secret from her teachers and family, and even the thought of high school and college is part of the remote and unattainable future.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When she sees how much her little brother and young stepbrother and stepsister want to play softball, thirteen-year-old Kristy starts her own team, which makes up in spirit what it lacks in skill.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Each member of the Baby-sitters Club sponsors a different girl in the Little Miss Stoneybrook competition, as Dawn also tries to cope with the break-up of her family after her parents are divorced.
13) Stacey's mistake
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Stacey invites her Baby-sitters Club friends down for a weekend in New York City, but the big city creates big problems for the girls.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Claudia has always been the most outrageous kid in her class...until Ashley Wyeth comes along, Ashley's really different--she wears hippie clothes, has six holes in her ears, and is the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Claudia has artistic talent, too. She thinks Claudia should spend more time on her "calling" and forget about the Baby-sitters Club: It's just a waste of time. The Baby-sitters are sick of Ashley Wyeth, and they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Karen has new roller skates. She is a very good skater. She can even do tricks. But oh, no! Karen falls down and breaks her wrist! She has to go to the hospital and get a cast. Karen wants somebody famous to sign her cast. It isn't going to be easy-butKaren won't give up till she gets the job done!"--
Author
Series
Missy Piggle-Wiggle volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has left her Upside-Down House and the animals that live there in the care of her twenty-something niece, Missy. Luckily for the town's families, Missy Piggle-Wiggle is capable of concocting the same sort of inventive cures for bad behavior that made her aunt an indispensable community resource"--
Author
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Stacey McGill is moving back to New York, and her friends must face the sadness of saying good-bye, hunt down the perfect farewell gift, and take on the difficult task of filling Stacey's place in the Baby-sitters Club.
Author
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easy, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister--and when your beloved father dies and you are forced to movethings just get worse.