Pre-teen girls' concern with breast development and menstruation and their growing interest in boys are treated in a tender, funny first-person story.

Andrew wants freckles more than anything else and uses a "freckle Juice" recipe with hilarious results.

A poor girl overcomes temptation and succeeds in life. It happens when she befriends a rich girl whose father offers to pay her college tuition. It is not easy, the rich one, now turned playgirl, tempting her away from studies with boys.

Lately, second grader Freddy Dissel has that left-out kind of feeling. Life can be lonely when you're the middle kid. But now for the first time it's Freddy's chance to show everyone how special he is.

Iggie's House just wasn't the same. Iggie was gone, moved to Tokyo. And there was Winnie, cracking her gum on Grove Street, where she'd always lived, with no more best friend and two weeks left of summer. Then the Garber family moved into Iggie's house--two boys, Glenn and Herbie, and Tina, their little sister. The Garbers were black and Grove Street was white and always had been. Winnie, a welcoming committee of one, set out to make a good impression...

Michael and Katherine, two high school seniors, believe their love is strong enough to last forever, until they are separated for the summer and begin to want different things.

In this new bind-up, Judy Blume's two stories about three best friends will reach a new set of girls. Stephanie, Rachel and Alison know there will be plenty of family issues, broken hearts, and tough school assignments as they make their way through junior high. But with a good pair of friends, a girl can do anything.

Judy Blume (Superfudge, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret) sits down with Lisa Von Drasek to discuss and read from her book, Pain and the Great One.

Spending the summer in Tarrytown, New York, is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she does not want to admit.

Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.