New Releases by Mary Stolz

When his mother is killed in a car accident, a thirteen-year-old boy tries to cope with his grief and sense of loss, and his father''s retreat into alcoholism.

In the attempt to redefine her family''s relationship after her parents'' divorce, Jimmie realizes there are no families without interpersonal conflicts.

Many conflicts arise within the Reed family when they are forced to move in with relatives in the country.

An American couple touring Mexico finds lodging at the home of a mysterious old lady the villagers refer to as the queen.

The absentminded hen not only forgets she has no children but also that she is only tending the other baby animals. Adopting them as her own she tries to turn kids, piglets, ducklings, goslings, and a foal into chicks.

Mady Guthrie and Sue Ellen Forrest live across the hall from each other in a racially-mixed neighborhood.

Maximilian, the Chihuahua, longs for some adventures of his own after listening to Siri the cat''s, and he persuades Asa the mouse to join him in this sequel to Siri the Conquistador.

A seventeen-year-old boy, treated like a child, is unable to communicate or sympathize with his widowed father, but a summer''s friendship with a girl and an unfortunate accident help him to understand, request, and accept his parent''s difficult expression of love.

Grandfather made everything that worked well once into a rule and thought change would be very bad until Tom Kitten showed up one night.

A portrait of a family as winter changes to spring: Cassie, unwilling to solve her conflict between honesty and tact; her older sister, flirtatious and vain, self-confident and selfish; her college-age brother, looking for love; their mother, lonely for her children''s childhood; and their father, only an unwelcome visitor when he returns from business trips.

Two mice, on friendly terms with the storeroom cat, share his anxiety about dogs, particularly when they hear the store-owners plan to get a dog named Maximilian.

A big orange tomcat, unsuccessfully courting a lady cat, befriends a grouchy, lonely little boy who is staying in the tom''s Paris hotel, and each finds happiness.

A big orange tomcat, unsuccessfully courting a lady cat, befriends a grouchy, lonely little boy who is staying in the tom''s Paris hotel, and each finds happiness.

Small twin mice, Bob and Ozzie, are chosen to bell the house cat.

Two mice, relegated to patrol the cellar of their house, escape from opression and face the insecurities of freedom afield.

Fifteen-year-old Anny, who tells the story, has done all her living vicariously in the pages of Dickens, Keats, and Rupert Brooke. Falling into intense puppy-love with one of her mother''s boarders tumbles her into reality.

For Edward Frost, getting a dog and getting rid of the bully, Martin Hastings, seem equally unlikely.

They were known at school as the beautiful girl and her plain friend, only her fiancé could never believe his girl was the plain one. Includes eight more stories dealing with social problems and romance.

Too complacent to quit a job she doesn''t like or to refuse a date with a boy she only feels sorry for, a nineteen-year-old girl finally takes her brother''s advice and begins to develop character when she declines a marriage proposal.

A nineteen-year-old reflects on her time in private school, when a coarse, hostile, brilliant daughter of a cleaning woman attended, and of the effect the girl had on those at the school, including the nineteen-year-old''s idealistic older brother.

Judy Connor meets the world with new maturity and understanding, after the marriage of her older sister, Morgan.

After mother''s death, father and two post-adolescent children cannot seem to understand each other.

Examines young people''s awareness of the conflicts and divisions in a college town through the story of two town girls and the different disappointments they suffer not going to college, the senior student who boards at their house as part of his thesis research, and a co-ed who recognizes the problem of "town versus gown" but lacks the assurance to take a strong stand.