New Releases by Claudia Mills

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Quiet, introspective Hannah Keddie is surprised when she is befriended by the other new girl at school, popular Caitie Crystal.

Driven by overachieving parents and swept away by the moneymaking schemes of an eager new friend, eleven-year-old Cally finds herself meeting everyone''s expectations but her own.

Heidi tries a succession of ways to make her fifth-grade teacher less mean.

Melanie gets carried away with her good ideas, whether it''s an idea for a worm fight or for tying shoelaces together.

When fifth-grader Jessica discovers that her parents adopted her because they mistakenly believed they could not have children, she wonders if they love her less than the brother and sister who were born later.

When her look-alike younger sister Lucy gets promoted into her fifth grade class, Cynthia feels that she must fight to retain her own individuality.

A thirteen-year-old girl in Baltimore is forced to come to grips with her dreams and the realities of the Depression in 1931.

More than anyone, Clarisse admires her best friend Emily, who isn''t afraid of anything, even the old woman who keeps chickens at the back of the woods.

Cuban, Catholic, and poor, 14-year-old Luisa Ruiz wants the American Dream and finds it the form of a young WASP with money and sophistication. To win his love, she lies about her background, and then discovers he''s not what she wants after all.

Ziggy does not do well on the school track and field day events, but he feels much better after his classmates recognize his drawing talent.