Iggie's House (11 page)

Are You There
God? It's Me,
Margaret
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Print ISBN: 978-0-385-73986-3
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-307-81774-7

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She's just moved from New York City to the suburbs, and she's anxious to fit in with her new friends, so when they form a secret club to talk about boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can believe Margaret doesn't have a religion. And Margaret can't tell them the truth: that she can talk to God anyway, about everything that's on her mind—including Philip Leroy, the best-looking boy in sixth grade.

Margaret is funny and real. So are her most personal thoughts and feelings.

Blubber
Print ISBN: 978-0-440-40707-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-307-81766-2

Blubber is a good name for her
, the note from Wendy says about Linda. Jill crumples it up and leaves it on the corner of her desk. She doesn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on whales just now. Jill wants to think about Halloween.

But then Robby grabs the note, and before Linda is done talking it has gone halfway around the room.

That's where it all starts. There's something about Linda that makes a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they can go—but nobody, least of all Jill, expects the fun to end where it does.

Starring Sally J.
Freedman as
Herself
Print ISBN: 978-0-440-48253-6
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-307-81770-9

When Sally's family moves to Miami Beach for the winter of 1947, she's excited and nervous at the same time. What will school be like in Florida? Will she make any friends? Will she fit in so far away from home?

But none of this stops Sally from having the most amazing adventures. One minute she's a famous movie star, the next she's a brilliant detective, the next she's found the Latin lover of her dreams—her classmate Peter Hornstein. And what about the Freedmans' neighbor, old Mr. Zavodsky, who looks suspiciously like Hitler in disguise?

Sally's life is a movie played inside her head, and Miami Beach is her best setting yet. If only she didn't have so much to worry about …