Maeve is under a lot of pressure: her parents are separating, she's receiving a big community service award for her blanket project, and she gets into a real bind by lying to her parents and friends. Both Maeve and Avery learn through letters from the heart that being true to your family and frie...
Maeve Kaplan-Taylor believes her lifelong dream of becoming a movie star is about to come true. She's going to film camp, where she'll learn all about what it takes to make a movie....and, moreimportantly, to star in one. This Hollywood-style adventure features a star-struck Maeve, an annoying yo...
The Abigail Adams Seventh-Grade Talent Show is coming up, and the Beacon Street Girls are hard at work on their magic act. Isabel and the rest of the BSG learn to take things out of bounds in order to deal with the Queens of Mean and an out of control soccer mom, and to save the Movie House.
Charlotte returns to Paris to search for her long lost cat and visit her best Parisian friend, Sophie. When a stolen Picasso sketch ends up in Charlotte's backpack, the BSG's bon voyage gifts become the detective tools for solving the mystery.
It's Spirit Week at Abigail Adams Junior High, but the IM gossip chain has gotten way out of control, and poor Isabel is the target! Mean messages and whispering classmates are popping up all over -- and of course, the Queens of Mean are in the thick of it. Everybody claims to be "just kidding," ...
The party of the year is just around the corner, and the Beacon Street Girls are in the middle of the excitement. Meanwhile, Maeve is having major problems in math class ? she's really worried that she might have to repeat seventh grade. What happens when the party invitations are given out ... b...
Katani and Maeve head to New York City to experience a teen fashion show. Meanwhile, back in Boston, the seventh grade class goes to the Museum of Fine Art to explore the Egyptian mummies. Katani and Maeve learn the hard way that fashion is all about self-expression and being true to one's self.
Big time adventure awaits the Beacon Street Girls and the rest of their seventh-grade class. The seventh-grade class is heading to Lake Rescue in Vermont for their big overnight trip. How cool! Maeve and Katani are afraid of spiders and things that go bump in the night, but Avery is ready for som...
Science isn't exactly Maeve's favorite subject, but she's still excited to be going to the Sally Ride Science Festival at MIT with her hunky tutor, Matt. Sure, the BSG and her annoyingly brilliant younger brother are going as well, but it's still almost kind of a date, isn't it? The festival giv...
Go West, young girl Avery's off to see ?the Snurfman? (a/k/a her dad) in Colorado She can?t wait to show off her skills in the first annual Telluride Snurfer Snowboarding Competition. But the Snurfman's got a few surprises in store. And when Avery meets Kazie, the thirteen year-old all-star board...
For use in schools and libraries only. Katani wants to win a contest for young entrepreneurs, but she also has major school projects to work on and twenty scarves to knit, and Maeve is undermining her efforts by signing up for her rival's tutoring service.
Katani was surprised to find herself in an empty house when she arrived home. Her Grandma Ruby, the principal at Abigail Adams Junior High, had stayed late at school with her sister Kelley. Her parents were both still at work, and her sister Patrice was probably at basketball practice. “Wow, it’s...
They are like…the work of some kind of mad food genius,” Dillon pronounced as he tossed a handful of the tangy snack into his mouth. The rest of the Salty Cods agreed as they scarfed down the last of Dillon’s bag of potato chips and enjoyed the ocean view from their perch on the rocks. Munching o...
Maeve said as the old man poured a kettle of boiling water into the dishpan. “For a ghost— former ghost, I mean—you’re a really awesome cook,” she added as she gulped down another delicious spoonful. “You all seemed to enjoy the stew I made, so I started workin’ on the chili first thing this morn...
She almost ran right into Charlotte, who was just leaving the library. “Are they closing?” she panted, out of breath. “Pretty soon, I think. What’s the rush?” asked Charlotte. “I have to do some research, you know, for the English paper,” Maeve rambled anxiously. Why am I so nervous? she thought....
A. Maevester B. Maevey-Baby C. Mix-Master-Curl D. Little Red Who offers to watch Sam at the Sally Ride Science Festival? A. Matt B. Bailey C. Charlotte D. Maeve Who is Sally Ride? A. The new AAJH science teacher B. An MIT professor C. Matt’s girlfriend D. The first American female astronaut to go...
Does your culture have any birthday traditions? Does your family have any special birthday traditions? Isabel and Ricardo admit to breaking the eagle statue because they are afraid that Mercedes will get in trouble for it. Have you ever been in a situation where you could have let someone else ta...
Ingredients: 1 head of red cabbage 1 knife (or blender, or grater) 1 pitcher 1 coffee filter Several clear plastic cups (or beakers) Hot tap water Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3) Vinegar (acetic acid, CH3COOH) Extra credit: Antacids, lemon juice, seltzer water, household ammonia…and anyt...
I do hope you and the family are well. In your letters to me over the years you have always expressed a desire to visit Jamaica, the home of your mother’s birth, and I would so love to see you before the days run out. My bakery is doing well. Though it is small, it keeps body and soul together. I...