Jane O'Connor

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.

"Today is Halloween and Nancy can't wait to collect candy from each house she visits. But it's hard to leave all those delectable treats in her pumpkin pail. Is there such a thing as too much candy?" --

When Kate gets new, big kids' ice skates and gives her old ones to her little sister, she is surprised that the new ones are much harder to use.

"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...

This little girl can leap, creep, twirl, skate, burp, slurp, and do all the other things kids love to do-except skip! But with the help of a clever suggestion from her mom, she soon finds herself skipping all the way to school. Ready, Set, Skip! is an upbeat, lively readaloud about learning that what you think you can't do may only be a hop, skip, and a jump away!

Nancy is determined to make the cover of her very first book report as fancy as she can, but she spends so much time on it that she has no time to write about the book.

Nancy and her friend Bree explore the fascinating world of birds and insects in their exclusive and glamorous Explorers Extraordinaire Club.

Beth admires her friend Molly's courage, but on a visit to Molly's country home, Beth surprises herself with her own bravery when the two become lost within the maze of a cornfield.

After Nancy and Bree find kittens out in the rain, Nancy decides to keep one, putting her posh pup, Frenchy, on edge.