Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Alice McKinley fills the summer before her junior year of high school with a job at the mall, hanging out with her friends, and wishing she had a bigger family.

Things start looking up for Emily and Jackson when Emily's inheritance clears and Aunt Hilda becomes her legal guardian and offers to become Jackson's, as well, but Uncle Victor reappears, willing to do anything to steal Emily's fortune.

While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

Alice is adjusting to her new stepmother, her brother's new apartment, her new boyfriend, and getting a driver's license.

Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right; and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkins's class she is greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people are inside that counts.

The summer before she enters the seventh grade becomes the summer of Alice's first boyfriend, and she discovers that love is about the most mixed-up thing that can possibly happen to you, especially since she has no mother to go to for advice.

In the sequel to Shiloh, Marty Preston continues to fight to keep Shiloh, his beloved beagle. However, when Shiloh's former owner, Judd Travers, begins drinking again, the situation becomes very dangerous.

Is ornery Judd Travers a changed man? Marty believes he is, even when a body is found and just about everyone in town thinks Judd is the murderer. But the piece of orange cloth Shiloh digs up may be a clue to what really happened.