Jane O'Connor

Nancy adore tout ce qui est froufrous et paillettes, tout ce qui est "chic" quoi! Aussi la fillette est-elle enchantée lorsqu'elle apprend que sa classe accueille Robert, un nouvel élève originaire de Paris. Bien décidée à gagner son amitié, elle s'empresse de lui exposer tout ce qu'elle connaît sur la Ville lumière. Or, Robert semble en connaître davantage sur les cow-boys que sur la capitale française. Et s'il venait de Paris ... Texas? Une première lecture qui se moque gentiment des fillettes contemporaines au comportement précieux, dont la chevelure frisottée est ornée de rubans ou de serre-tête fleuris en parfait accord avec leurs robes et tutus rose bonbon. Des aquarelles rehaussées de traits de plume accompagnent le texte rigolo et abondamment dialogué--SDM.

Miranda "Rannie" Bookman—43, divorced mother of two, with a recent love life consisting of a long string of embarrassingly brief encounters—is beginning to feel like a dangling participle: connected to nothing. Her career as a copyeditor is down the toilet (she makes one little slip—a missing "l" from the last word in the title of the Nancy Drew classic The Secret of the Old Clock—and suddenly she's Publishing Enemy #1!), so she's been forced to take any gig she can get. And that means giving tours at the Chapel School, the ultra-exclusive, ultra-expensive, private academy that her children attend. Certainly not the most interesting of employments . . . at least until someone stumbles across the dead body of the Director of College Admissions.Investigating a murder was never in her job description, but with her soon-to-be-college-bound boy Nate a prime suspect, Rannie has little choice. Besides, who better to dot all the "i"s and cross all the "t"s than a self-proclaimed "language cop"? Her diligence might even lead her to a brand-new love. Or to a killer. Or to another corpse—hopefully not her own.

Lulu starts witch school and meets a classmate who is best at everything.

A mysterious ghost leads the four boys of Tent 19 on the trail of buried pirate treasure.

Fancy Nancy's sister, Jojo, has done something really bad and Nancy is livid. Jojo drew a tattoo on Nancy's precious doll. When Mom suggests a fancy doll party to make Nancy feel better, Nancy is excited to accept, but what if the doll drama isn't over? When Fancy Nancy's sister, JoJo, draws a tattoo on Nancy's precious doll, Mom suggests a fancy doll party to make Nancy feel better. Nancy is excited to accept, but the doll drama is not over.

A lonely new student finds friends and adventures after joining a Brownie Girl Scout troop. Book includes instructions for making a friendship bracelet.

On her mother's birthday, Nancy gives her a total beauty makeover in the yard outside, which she has converted into a fancy salon.

Abby is thrilled when her parents agree to let her go to Camp Pinecrest with her best friend, Merle. But her dreams of a fun-filled summer are shattered when Merle breaks her ankle the day before they leave. Now Abby must face a long summer filled with homesickness and nasty bunkmates—all without Merle. Will Merle still be her best friend when she finally returns home? Will Abby ever really fit in at camp? And will the campers ever be able to identify the mystery meat?

A young girl who uses fancy words and considers herself practically a poison ivy expert learns a valuable (and itchy) lesson about the plant after picking a bouquet of wildflowers in her backyard.

For more than two thousand years, a secret army of life-size terra-cotta soldiers lay buried underground in China. But in 1974, some farmers digging a well discovered the first of what turned out to be an army of more than 7,000. Who made them? And why? In this fascinating reader, kids will learn all about one of the wonders of the ancient world and the fierce first emperor of China.

Fancy Nancy and her father love stargazing, and during her first campout under the stars she describes the heavens to him and her sister, JoJo, using her fancy words.

While on a field trip to the aquarium, Nancy discovers that she loves all the different sea life except for jellyfish, but with the help of Ms. Glass and her friends, Nancy is able to overcome her fear of the gelatinous animals.