New Releases by Marilyn Sachs

This collection of familiar hymn texts offers readers an opportunity to read and enjoy the language and poetry of their favorite hymns free of the encumbering musical notation. Reading the hymn texts is spiritually enriching and will also enable the reader to sing the hymns with greater understanding.

Just right to read alone or aloud, the funny, exaggerated stories featured here will be a hit in any season. Illustrated.

Worried by her parents lack of concern about family finances and her own lack of a boyfriend, Imo generates income from babysitting and gets a crush on the father of one of her charges.

Lonely, confused, and in need of love in her new life with an aunt and uncle in San Francisco, a twelve-year-old orphan searches for her long-lost dog

Worried by her parents lack of concern about family finances acd her own lack of a boyfriend, Imo generates income from babysitting and gets a crush on the father of one of her charges.

Nadat een dikke jonge vrouw door haar vriend is veranderd in iemand met zelfvertrouwen, ervaart ze hoe wurgend de liefde kan zijn.

An only child relates the trials and tribulations she experiences when her mother has triplets.

Having to contend with a suffering poet-father and an author-mother who uses her daughters''s life as material for her popular books, fourteen-year-old Rebecca finds her life is further disrupted by the new boy next door and his enigmatic family.

Jeff, a high school senior, becomes obsessed with creating a new, beautiful person out of an unhappy, fat girl, but when she begins to think independently, he loses control of the situation.

De joodse Ruth (8) en haar moeder emigreren rond de eeuwwisseling van Rusland naar Amerika. Ruth voelt zich daar al gauw thuis, maar moeder weigert zich aan te passen.

Dorrie raconte spontanément sa condition "d''enfant unique" choyée et adulée, confrontée à la naissance des triplés, puis à l''adoption de deux nouveaux enfants. Le récit tient compte tant des joies et des difficultés des parents que de celles de l''enfant qui doit s''adapter à une nouvelle façon de vivre. Un récit très humain, plein d''humour et de réalisme, où l''auteur nous fait partager facilement les émotions des personnages.

The daughter of a Russiam immigrant family, new arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother''s increasingly radical union involvement.

Two teenagers get to know each other better and better during the weeks they share the shade of a tree on the beach.

Follows two girls through the years, Pat--who remains the most popular--and Lolly--who starts as "fat little Lolly" and winds up "most beautiful."

The fleet-footed star of the North Dakota Beavers meets her match when she encounters Yankee catcher, Fabulous Frankie.

A young girl moves leaving all her friends behind and becomes friendly with the most popular girl in her class, but will the friendship last?

Two high school juniors who consider themselves losers get to know each other while riding the bus to school.

A teenage girl''s driving ambition to be a writer prevents her from forming normal friendships. A favorite teacher tries to help her.

Although she sucks her thumb, smells bad, and loses herself in the make-believe world of the three bears'' dollhouse, ten-year-old Fran knows how to take care of her sister better than anybody else.

A warm story about the ins and outs of friendship between three girls, from the author of the Amy and Laura books.

A lonely foster child struggling to change her unhappy life is weakened by the bribes of an abusive foster mother, yet strengthened by imaginary conversations with Joan of Arc.