New Releases by Hazel Hutchins

Robyn is fed up with being an only child. She decides that having a part-time brother would be ideal. But the only person who answers her classified ad is her neighbour Ari and he wants Robyn to teach him piano. All she wanted was a brother, plain and simple, and now she''s mixed up in Ari''s plot to avoid his real piano lessons.

When the teacher asks her to sing for the class, Robyn knows it''s her chance to be the world''s best singer. Should she perform like Celine Dion, or do My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, or the matchmaker song? It''s hard to decide, even for the world''s best singer - and the three boys who throw spitballs don''t make it any easier.

When a little girl is unjustly accused of shoplifting, she bravely tries to prove her innocence.

Leanna and Norman build a huge snowball, and along the way, Norman loses his clothes, which aren''t found until the following spring.

Casey Webber longs to do something to prove to everyone that real magic is possible.

Things are missing at Leanna''s house, and she is sure a genie is responsible. The only solution is to set a trap.

On a bright morning in May the lady at the corner grocery store turned Derek Henshaw into a frog. After witnessing this trick, Sarah decides that she has found the perfect subject for her science project. Of course she will have to get Anastasia Morningstar to agree to share her secrets.

A sixth-grade boy has strange experiences involving animals just like those he carved on his stilts.

The life story of Liliuokalani and the last days of the kingdom of Hawaii and its transition into territorial status.

Jerry noticed that the grocer gave his charge customers candy on the days they paid their monthly bill, and he wished that his mother wouldn''t pay cash. So he decided that he would keep the cash when he went to the store, charge the groceries, and get the candy when he had to pay the bill, and nobody would lose. But it wasn''t as easy as Jerry thought to store all of the money.

Novel set in an isolated pearling community ; Philippinos, Chinese, Malays, Aborigines and white men.

"At fourteen Adrienne d''Ayen became the wife of Gilbert Lafayette. Separate strands of episodes and incident record the story of this daughter of France who married an aristocrat, saw him off to fight with Washington, endured the mounting horrors of Paris in the French Revolution, and preserved the unity of her family through voluntary imprisonment in Austria." Kirkus.

When his father''s return from Boston with the family is delayed, young Brad, left to care for their new wilderness home in Maine, must depend on the Indians for survival.

Thad Owen was a boy who lived in Elmwood, Maine. This book tells of his adventures bob-sledding and taking care of the horses.