Books with author Erika Tamar

When Katie sees the shivering, emaciated dog locked in the junkyard, she know she has to save him. But dogs aren't allowed in her housing project, and money is scarce at home. Then brutally cold weather hits, and Katie knows that the dog will die without shelter--unless she can figure out how to help him. Written in spare prose, here's an inspiring story of responsibility and commitment for young feminists and animal lovers alike.

Ninth-grader Andy's relatively stable life with his father and his cat living above their Manhattan restaurant is threatened when his father falls in love and their restaurant is discovered by a restaurant critic, bringing the Mafia in for a cut of the increasing business.Andy Szabo loves Cecilia's, a small restaurant owned by his father and ex-con Cajun Jack, until some unsavory characters set out to gain control of the eatery

An orphan train child escapes a coldhearted adoptive family to join a vaudeville troupe and travel to Texas to find her older brother Sean.Deirdre O'Rourke and her brothers Sean and Jimmy are sent by their mum from their tenement existence to ride one of the last of the orphan trains west, in the hope of finding a good family. Instead, all three are separated, and Deirdre is placed with a straitlaced minister and his wife, who she soon learns adopted her out of pity. Deirdre can only hope that someday she will be reunited with her beloved older brother, Sean. When at last she finds that he is on a ranch in Texas with a wonderful family, Deirdre longs to be with him, but with no money, she has no real hope of escaping. Then a vaudeville troupe comes to town on its way west. Deirdre convinces the vaudevillians to take her with them, and suddenly her life takes on a real purpose: getting to Texas. But along the way, Deirdre discovers she has a greater depth and purpose than she'd expected--and that being on stage is perhaps an even greater pull than family.

Seventeen-year-old Andy has two things on his mind this summer: working for the small newspaper in the Hamptons and losing his virginity. While on a bike ride, he meets beautiful Susan, an au pair for the wealthy and reclusive Carlyles. Andy and Susan embark on a love affair, but when Susan abruptly breaks things off, Andy fears that she is a virtual prisoner in the Carlyle house. He stages an elaborate rescue, but what he discovers there is not anything he had ever imagined. . . . “This is a well-written novel that teens won’t be able to put down.”--Kliatt