Betty Cavanna

A cabaret singer arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight, until she finally falls in love. Blonde Venus: An aspiring young actress gives up the stage to marry a scientist who becomes afflicted with radium poisoning. She returns to cabaret life and meets a wealthy playboy who gives her the money for her husband's treatment. The devil is a woman: At the turn of the century, in the port town of Seville, it's carnival week, and the blood of enemies and the passions of lovers run hot. But, none so much as those of a young revolutionary, his old friend, and the new woman who comes between them both. The flame of New Orleans: An impoverished countess arrives in New Orleans with one thing in mind, to marry a wealthy man. Golden earrings: A Hungarian gypsy rescues a British intelligence officer and helps him to accomplish his mission

Explains how shells are made; describes such bivalves as clams, oysters, and pectens, and many different univalves; and gives suggestions on building a shell collection.

During an eventful year in Florida, Anne Dalton begins to understand her commitments to family and friends and to realize that her real interests lie with helping people.

Historical teenage novel. Devoted to the revolutionary cause, sixteen-year-old Sarah finds it difficult to accept the presence of a captured young British officer convalescing in their Concord house.

When fifteen-year-old Charlotte accepts the position of groom for the horses of impoverished gentry, she discovers there are many ways in which she must prove herself.

Summary: A touching romance helps a young girl toward maturity as she and her family try to accustom themselves to life in Rio de Janeiro.

Novel for young teenagers. Fourteen-year-old Julie tries to escape her own sense of inadequacy and her friends' talk of boys and parties by devoting herself to raising an orphaned collie pup. She gains in confidence through her relationship with the dog and also develops as a artist.

A fictional account of the mid-19th-century voyage, led by Asa Mercer, of several hundred young women going from the east coast to help populate Seattle.

Starting her sophomore year on Martha's Vineyard, Cindy thinks the only thing she really cares about is a beautiful black horse she works with at a nearby farm, until she meets the new boy Tad.

This is the story of Diane's sophomore year in high school, of her family and friends, her disappointments and triumphs, her growing awareness of the world around her—and of the boy next door. Diane wants to be like the girls in her crowd, but doesn't quote know how and, as a result, becomes rather shy and self-conscious. During that summer, Diane has her first real date, goes to her first real party, and survives the competition of a visiting glamor girl—in short, she is beginning to grow up; an experience she finds increasingly satisfying; though there are dark moments when her only real confidant seems to be Dynamite, her nondescript dog and inseparable companion. This is a book for every girl who is going to be fifteen or who ever has been.

In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.

An introduction to wild flowers, covering those of the different seasons and such groupings as edible, poisonous, popular, or carnivorous wild flowers.

After graduating from high school in New England, a seventeen-year-old girl returns to her Caribbean island home and to a new job that involves her in a dangerous and mysterious situation.

A young Chinese boy, who lives in a sampan in Hongkong's harbor and learns English from an elderly tutor, sees the destruction brought to his city by a typhoon and returns a lost wallet which brings him a valuable reward.

When Jo is forced to give up her plans for college, she opens a boarding kennel for dogs.

Anne encounters perplexing problems, some pleasant and others shocking, while living with her grandmother in Florida.