Ann M : 677 books

Happy Augustina to you! There are no big holidays in August. But Karen wishes there were. So she and her friends decide to invent a brand-new holiday of their own. Augustina will celebrate the end of summer. And the kids want it to combine parts of all their favorite holidays. The only problem is that they can’t decide which ones.

...Then it goes too far. Karen thinks she has nothing exciting to say at Show and Share. So she says something that is not true. Karen tells her class she is related to a famous baseball player. She figures no one will remember. But everybody does. What will happen when the kids find out that she lied?

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Who stole the paintings? Karen is visiting her little-house family in Chicago for a whole month! She wonders what she will do there. Then there is a robbery in the building. Now...

Swimmers, take your marks! Karen has joined the swim team! She loves dreaming about winning medals and learning to swim fast. But mostly she likes to have fun with her swim team friends. Then the coach starts acting mean. He says the team is not working hard enough. Can Karen find a way to be a winner and have fun too?

School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class! The playground is covered with snow. The kids in Ms. Colman's class are busy building snow forts and throwing snoballs. It is fun at first. But then the snowball fights turn mean. Ian does not like the snow war. He wants it to stop. Can Ian and the snow war all by himself?

BOO! Karen’s class gets to help decorate a haunted house for Halloween! It is lots of fun making things look scary. But then Karen and her friends start hearing spooky noises. And someone is playing tricks, too. Who -- or what -- is haunting Karen’s haunted house?

Karen is going on a trip to her Granny’s farm. There are all kinds of fun things to do there, like playing with the animals and riding on the tractor. Granny lives so far away, Karen has to take a plane to get there. But Karen has never flown alone before. She hopes it’s not to scary!

Feeling upset because she failed a surprise math quiz, Karen cheats on the next few math tests, but she begins to feel guilty and confesses everything to her teacher.

Children will enjoy reading about Sissa, a little girl who embarks on an adventure after an alien spaceship lands one night in her backyard. At first, Sissa believes she may have just had an elaborate dream, but when she finds an alien in her bedroom the next day, she realizes the spaceship encounter...

Frustrated by the failure of her lemonade stand business, Karen decides to sell lemonade during softball practice instead of in front of her house, but Kristy fears that the Krushers are spending more time with lemonade than on the field.

With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, Karen copes with leprechauns, Irish lore, the St. Patrick's Day parade, pots of gold, rainbows, and an adorable stray dog named Lucky.

For New Year's Eve, Karen thinks everyone should make a resolution. Hannie promises to stop biting her nails; Kirsty promises not to talk on the phone so much; and Karen catches everyone breaking their promises and they're all calling her a spy. Aren't resolutions supposed to be fun?

After a big fight, sisters Flora and Ruby must come together in this stirring installment of Main Street Flora and Ruby have always gotten along as sisters, but now they're coming apart. They're starting to fight all the time and nobody -- not their friends, not their grandmother -- knows what to...

Oh, brother! Karen and David Michael have been getting in a lot of fights. Karen does not like her stepbrother one bit. At least Karen can get away from him at school. But now David Michael might join Karen’s class. Oh, no. He will pick on her all day. How can Karen keep David Michael away?