Sam Kinney must find out if the weird spice Aunt Slyvie puts in his macaroni and cheese is causing him to eat everything he sees, including paste, dishwashing soap, dog food, and dirt.
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A Catholic opera singer and Jewish violin virtuoso dream of performing together at the legendary Carnegie Hall in New York City, but the German invasion of Poland tears them apart.
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A Catholic opera singer and Jewish violin virtuoso dream of performing together at the legendary Carnegie Hall in New York City, but the German invasion of Poland tears them apart.
Feeling rejected and ignored by her twelve-year-old sister Ginger, Suki enlists her best friends in the fourth grade for a grand scheme of revenge.
Convinced that he is a rotten kid and disgusted that his father is still taking physical advantage of his mother even though they are now divorced, sixteen-year-old Marcus finds that a vodka bottle is the only thing to get him through one horrible day to another.
The legend of a ghost on the island where he is spending the summer inspires money-hungry thirteen-year-old Derek to dupe his friends into paying admission to a supposedly haunted house.
Jersey girl: Ollie is madly in love with his wife. But when the Manhattan music publicist's wife dies in childbirth, Ollie's life becomes emotionally shattered. Not sure what to do next, he moves to New Jersey with his infant daughter to live with his dad. Juggling his career and...
With the prospect of Camp Hit-a-Homer looming before him, eleven-year-old Warren, whose older brother is a super athlete, resorts to desperate measures to hide the fact that he can neither throw nor catch a ball.
Bernie befriends a small stray dog who proves to be invaluable around the house and is a hit at the Pet Lovers Club Halloween party.
A fight with his best friend Mackie, one of the wealthy summer people who live part-time on his island, starts thirteen-year-old Pink wondering if they are envious of each other and if he himself really wants to go to school on the mainland.
Between a disastrous attempt to start a club, feuding with a class member, and trying to decide how to treat the new boy in sixth grade, Shirley feels life doesn't hold very much.