Jenna objects to her mother's new boyfriend, a wacky weatherman, and exerts every effort to prevent his becoming her new father.

With the date for the horse show drawing near, Stevie plans to win as many categories as possible, Carole vows to beat Cam Nelson, and Lisa is determined to ride Prancer.

When Carole finds out she's going to Florida for winter break, she's thrilled. Carole's cousin has planned lots of fun activities, including a ride along the beach. But Carole's ride turns out to be more exciting and frightening than she ever dreamed.

School and public libraries often provide programs and activities for children in preschool through the sixth grade, but there is little available to young adults. For them, libraries become a place for work—the place to research an assignment or find a book for a report—but the thought of the library as a place for enjoyment is lost. So how do librarians recapture the interest of teenagers? This just might be the answer. Here you will find theme-based units (such as Cartoon Cavalcade, Log On at the Library, Go in Style, Cruising the Mall, Space Shots, Teens on TV, and 44 others) that are designed for young adults. Each includes a display idea, suggestions for local sponsorship of prizes, a program game to encourage participation, 10 theme-related activities, curriculum tie-in activities, sample questions for use in trivia games or scavenger hunts, ideas for activity sheets, a bibliography of related works, and a list of theme-related films. The units are highly flexible, allowing any public or school library to adapt them to their particular needs.

Explains the process by which information is gathered and presented to resolve the legal issues involved in obtaining a divorce. Includes case histories of the writer's clients.

An annotated listing of books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama recommended for junior high and middle school students.

- Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.

After his father remarries, twelve-year-old Jeremy begins to feel that there is no place for him in a family which now includes a stepsister his age who is a superb athlete.