New Releases by Suzanne Weyn

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.

Three girls become friends when they skip ballet class and spend a calamity-filled afternoon in a shopping mall.

Chris gains self-confidence when she works as a babysitter at the exclusive Palm Pavilion Hotel.

Shy Marsha, madeover by The Makeover Club, is nominated to run for class president against cute Doris. Will this campaign end in disaster?

Charlie hopes that a sprained ankle will keep her from having to perform in a ballet recital.

When her father loses his job and plunges her family into a financial crisis, eleven-year-old Lindsey enlists the help of her faithful friends in several moneymaking schemes so she can afford the costume for their upcoming ballet recital.

Hoping to impress an older ballet student and gain the attention of her busy parents, eleven-year-old Emma lies about her ability to dance on pointe.

Fifteen frogs brought by two young boys almost ruin Mom''s luncheon until her guests see the humor in being joined by the jumping creatures.

Because of Meep the Mouse''s bravery, he is able to rescue his adoptive monkey family from their captivity by the King of Bim.