New Releases by Suzanne Weyn

Lately Katie feels her whole life is one long series of disasters. Her dopey cousin Mel''s carelessness caused a scary kitchen fire. Uncle Jeff''s not sure he paid the fire insurance, and worrying about how to pay for the repairs is literally making him sick.

Ms. Frizzle''s class is building a wonderful diorama of the desert, but learning about such a harsh environment has gotten Phoebe worried. What happens to all the animals in the desert without any water to sustain them in the scorching heat? Ties in with the PBS-TV series beginning in October 1995. Full color.

Lately Katie feels her whole life is one long series of disasters. Her dopey cousin Mel''s carelessness caused a scary kitchen fire. Uncle Jeff''s not sure he paid the fire insurance, and worrying about how to pay for the repairs is literally making him sick.

Ashley has always had a special way with animals. Now she has a job helping Dr. Jeffers in her veterinary practice, and Ashley is sure she can cure some of the sick animals herself. But when one of the animals nearly dies from her homemade remedy, Ashley is devastated. Can one of Ashley''s angels help her do the right thing and admit the truth?

Lately Katie feels her whole life is one long series of disasters. Her dopey cousin Mel''s carelessness caused a scary kitchen fire. Uncle Jeff''s not sure he paid the fire insurance, and worrying about how to pay for the repairs is literally making him sick.

Molly''s father has decided to let her join him on a business trip, and they''ll be staying in an ancient Irish castle. She''s hoping she can talk with her father about some things really important to her. But once there, Molly''s father is preoccupied. When Molly comes up with a reckless plan to get his attention, the plan backfires and Molly needs rescuing.

Ashley''s perfect life is suddenly falling apart....is anyone listening?

After the death of her parents, Katie is forced to move in with uncaring relatives. Feeling completely alone, she runs away, but discovers that guardian angels are looking out for her.

Christina dreams of dancing on air, but reality keeps bringing her down to earth. Her dance teacher thinks Christina should give it up, that Christina will never have the right build for dancing. Christina thinks where there''s a will there''s a way. If she can only make herself over, she''s sure her wishes will come true. Her friends liked the old Christina just fine, and they''re worried she''s trying too hard to change. Christina is truly more special than anyone can guess, least of all Christina, but it will take a special being to make her see the light.

When her aunt and uncle go on vacation and she remembers how her parents went away, Katie feels abandoned until she finds a mysterious baby in the woods.

Stephanie, who wants to get her ears pierced to impress the other girls at school, is the choreographer for her sister Michelle''s school play.

Twelve-year-old Tracey''s life with her divorced mother seems perfectly balanced with her growing career as a model, until the father she has never known seeks her out and she is faced with a difficult decision.

When the animal shelter burns down, Barbie agrees to take the animals until a new shelter can be built

Elliot''s new best friend is a ghost that only he can see.

When Barbie and Kira are stranded at crabby old Uncle Ben''s house on Christmas eve, they find a way to provide holiday spirit for Ben and his neighbors.

When Barbie is accepted at the renowned Worldwide Ballet School, she debuts with the famous Russian dancer Ivan Stavinsky, and reunites him with his long-lost family.

Twelve-year-old Tracey fears she is losing her best friend Chris when Chris gets her first boyfriend and becomes part of the popular crowd at school.

Barbie and the gang plan to turn Aunt Sara''s old mansion into a children''s camp, but first they must solve the mystery of the phantom that lives there.

Barbie and her friends have a great summer at the beach winning the skating contest, cleaning up the pollution being illegally dumped in the ocean, and catching the polluters.

Wanting to start dating at the same time as her two best friends, ninth-grader Sam begins secretly seeing the handsome Kyle Jameson, even though her father has forbidden her to date until she is sixteen.

While working as a staff babysitter at the Palm Pavilion Hotel and helping an injured dolphin, Chris tries to change her image to attract the hotel''s handsome pool boy.

Sam jeopardizes her babysitting job at the Palm Pavilion Hotel and her friendship with Chris and Liza when she befriends sophisticated Trisha Royce who believes in winning at all costs.

When she gets the opportunity to leave her small town to attend an outstanding acting school in New York, fourteen-year-old Liza is excited at the prospect but dismayed to be leaving her close friends.

When ten-year-old Lindsey worries that she may have to go to live with an aunt in Boston and leave her widowed father alone, her friends from school and ballet class support her in various ways.

Eleven-year-old Emma slights her new friends in the suburbs because she is excited about seeing her recently divorced father during her ballet class''s field trip to Manhattan to see "The Nutcracker," but several disappointments help her put her new life in a better perspective.