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An abridged version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up in 1800s New England; and contains over 400 vocabulary words and definitions, synonyms and pronunciation for each word, and discussion questions.

Dora sets out to gather ingredients to make a special cake for her mami for Mother's Day and finds out what her friends are giving their moms.

Investigates what the author calls the "girly-girl" culture, with its emphasis on princesses and the color pink, in an effort to understand whether a focus on beauty and play-sexiness is harmful to growing girls, and argues that parents need to determine their values, set reasonable limits, and encourage dialogue with their daughters in order to soften the influence of consumer culture and materialism.

Reta's happy life is torn apart when her eldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads "goodness" and as Reta searches to find what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement, she learns important lessons about love and hope.

A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent acceptance.

Stephanie does not get along with her mother's new boyfriend Gregg, who is so very different from her late father, and while Gregg goes out of his way to irritate her, Stephanie is unnerved when he mentions her resemblance to the girls who have recently gone missing from their homes.

Startling, unusual, and irresistibly readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and science fiction, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

Written in the form of letters to her best friend, Delia, back home, Brady tells of her adventures while on a Mediterranean cruise with her mother and of her progress on Delia's list of things she must do, including the search for a code red "Euro-hottie.

When 12-year-old Lacey and her mother return to Southern Appalachia to live, her grandmother does not approve of the independent lifestyle of Lacey's mother.

Rain's daughter, Summer, leaves home with her best friend, a young man named Harley, in an attempt to pick up the pieces when her young life is shattered by a brutal act soon after her sixteenth birthday.

Miranda Popescu challenges the mad Baroness Ceausescu and finds herself in the middle of a dangerous political and diplomatic firestorm.

After a delusional widowed mother goes missing, her two children who she did not allow out of the home and had created their own fantasy life, are now forced to encounter the real world and real people.

Hilda's world is upset as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the city when her mother, an architect, is offered a job.

Claire's life takes a dramatic turn and suddenly she has everything she thought she wanted; but soon Claire begins to worry that the cost of her success may be too high.

Describes girls' biological and psychological development from birth to age twenty and explains how parents can help daughters build self-esteem, cope with their emotions, and deal with such problems as divorce, eating disorders, and early sexuality.