New Releases by Gloria D. Miklowitz

Popular high school senior Alex has ARC, an AIDS-related complex as a result of blood transfusions received after a car accident. When his secret leaks out, the swimming team shuns him, he''s suspended from school and the papers exploit the controversy.

Increasingly stifled by her overprotective mother and the demands of her fledgling acting career, sixteen-year-old Valerie comes to realize that she must make her own decisions about the direction of her life.

Fifteen-year-old Andrea is raped while hitchhiking home from the beach and finds it difficult to cope with her own emotional reactions and those of her family and friends.

After an accidental nuclear explosion off the coast of California, Philip searches for his family through a heavily militarized and devastated Los Angeles.

Victoria Brown, a teenager in trouble with the police for being a runaway, is sent to Lavender Lane Cottage, a private home for girls.

Seventeen-year-old Lori is convinced that marrying Rick right after graduation is what she most wants in the world and that participating in the simulated marriage unit of their Consumer Economics class will only help them start their marriage on the right foot.

In spite of having all the advantages money can provide, high-school senior Jenny sees little point in life until she volunteers to play the piano for a senior citizens'' band and receives the benefit of elderly wisdom.

Carrie''s joy at being assigned to work with Matt Baldwin on the school paper is spoiled by her parents'' decision to separate.

Adolescence.

Gina Brown returns to Plainville High School after a year''s absence and attempts to become part of a new group of friends by dating Brian Moorehead.

Relates the business successes of ten young people, most of whom are self-employed and several of whom are millionaires.

Introduces some of Hollywood''s best known stunt people, and tells how stunts are prepared and performed.

A collection of riddles such as "What did the umpire say at the pancake house? Batter up."

A biography of a three-time world champion roller skater who began skating at the age of two and competing at six.

After escaping from a devastating forest fire, Raccoon finds a new home.

A biography of the winner of 11 United States Tennis Association titles whose debut at Wimbledon made her the youngest player ever to compete in that tournament.

Text and photographs describe the career of Steve Cauthen, youngest jockey ever to win the Triple Crown.

A brief biography emphasizing the training and gymnastic achievements of the fourteen-year-old Romanian who earned a perfect score seven times in the 1976 Olympic Games.

A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader who sought nonviolent means to end racial discrimination.

A biography of the "common man" from Missouri who became the thirty-third President of the United States.

Taken from the jungle and sold as a pet, a young alligator is one of a few who find their way to the zoo and eventually back to the jungle.

Released from the rehabilitation camp, a black, eighteen-year-old former addict takes a job on a wild animal ranch in an attempt to prove to himself that he has really kicked the habit.

When the bears escape from the zoo, there is only one way to get them back again--feed them marshmallows and ice cream.

When David''s pet squirrel becomes stuck in his tuba, there is danger that the parade starting at noon may be "tubaless."