National Network for Equitable Library Service

In the late 1960s Penny is the youngest of four kids, known on her street as the girl with the mean brothers.

Eve Zaremba places her street-smart heroine as the head of security in a large, urban condominium.

It is 1972, and fifteen-year-old Sabine enjoys a comfortable life as the daughter of Indian parents living in Uganda.

Sixteen-year-old Frederick has a lot of rules for himself. Like if someone calls him Freddy he doesn’t have to respond; he only wears shirts with buttons and he hates getting dirty.

Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, she has dreams of being a writer.

Bernadette Inez O’Brian Schwartz is a very small girl with a very long name and a very BIG imagination! "Everyone agreed that Bernadette Inez O'Brian Schwartz was a most unusual child.

Zoe mostly has it good. Her parents are nice, her brother isn?t half bad, and her dog Ella is amazing. But Zoe thinks her life is boring ? nothing ever changes.

For ages 9 to 13 years. Fifteen-year-old Peggy is trying to run away from her problems at home.

Ages 8 to 11 years. Poppy is visiting her grandmother.

When she is confined to a nursing home after a series of debilitating strokes, Ruth Tyler struggles to accept the loss of her independence.

Jeremy is shocked to find that the theatre mannequins of elderly women his mother has put together are not what they seem.

Alex is seventeen years old and she feels her life has come to an end.

Poppy, the zany character from A Monster in My Cereal, A Ghost in My Mirror, and Witch’s Brew, is back. But this time, Poppy is miserable.

Ryan finds his freedom in the water, where he is not bound by gravity and his wheelchair.

A unique and much-needed collection, The Smart Princess takes readers inside the fantasies, dreams and disappointments of young people who are Deaf.