Anne Bobby

Doggone it!: When strict Mrs. Derkman moves next door to third-grader Katie Carew, scares her friends away, and insists she keep her dog, Pepper, on a leash, Katie finds a non-magical solution to the problem. Includes steps for teaching a dog to sit and stay. Drat! You copycat!: Katie agrees to be a buddy for the new girl in class even though her best friend Suzanne does not approve.

Anyway you slice it: Katie turns into Louie the chef after offering to help run a pizza eating contest. Quiet on the set!: While a movie is being filmed in Cherrydale, Katie switches into Rosie Moran, a world renowned child actress.

Ann Workman is a naive student. A misfit of sorts, she's traveled all the way from rural Kentucky to graduate school in literature in 1967. But Ann wants more than a good education--she wants a boyfriend. Ann wants the 'real thing'--to be in love with someone who loves her. Jimmy appears as if by magic, and is everything Ann's been looking for. Although he is from a very different place--a privileged background in suburban Chicago--he is a misfit,...