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  • Dear Dad, Love Laurie

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Library Binding (Scholastic, Feb. 1, 1989)
    Laurie's letters to her divorced father chronicle her year in the sixth grade and her efforts to enter her school's program for the gifted and talented
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  • Who Were They Really ?

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Library Binding (Millbrook Press, Sept. 1, 1999)
    Discusses the real people who provided the inspiration for popular characters from children's literature, including Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Christopher Robin, and Mother Goose
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  • Just Morgan

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Loose Leaf (H. Z. Walck, Aug. 16, 1970)
    Traces the development of numbers, counting systems, and counting machines.

  • THEA AT SIXTEEN

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Hardcover (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Oct. 1, 1988)
    As she seeks her niche in life, Thea becomes involved in volunteer work at the local hospital.

  • Marly the Kid

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Paperback (Dell Pub Co, Feb. 1, 1978)
    During her sophomore year Marly greatly affects her life by acting on two decisions--to live with her father instead of her mother and to refuse to take insulting remarks from her history teacher.

  • Friendship Pact

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Paperback (Scholastic, Jan. 16, 1988)
    Tracy’s favorite TV star is coming to town, and she will do anything to meet him face to face..... The two people Tracy loves most are Rabbit O’Shea, a smooth-talking bad boy, and Ross Perlman, an innocent young man with a golden voice. She could never choose between them, and she’ll never have to, because Rabbit is a TV character, and Ross is the actor who plays him. When Ross announces a concert in Tracy’s hometown, she pledges to do whatever it takes to meet the real-life Rabbit—a decision that could cost her everything she holds dear. She and her best friend, Andrea, make a pact that they will meet Ross together or not at all. But when one of them gets the chance to meet him alone, it threatens to tear their friendship apart. Suddenly, Tracy finds herself longing for the days when Ross Perlman was just another poster on her wall.
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  • The Year Without Michael

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Board book (Random House Children's Books (A Division of Random House Group), Nov. 14, 1991)
    A "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year, dealing with the devastating effect on a family of a child's disappearance. After her 14-year-old brother Michael vanishes on the way to a friend's house, Jody watches her family tearing itself apart, and makes a desperate effort to keep it together.

  • Family of Strangers

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Hardcover (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1992)
    A journal becomes young Abbey Talbott's only escape from the disintegration of her perfect family and the intense arguments between her father and sister, until a suicide attempt leads to counseling to help her cope with her dysfunctional family.
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  • The Year Without Michael

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Library Binding (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Nov. 11, 2003)
    Bad things aren't supposed to happen to good people. But somewhere between home and the softball field, 16-year-old Jody Chapman's younger brother disappeared, and now the family is falling apart. Her parents hardly speak to each other, her younger sister is angry and bitter, and Jody's friends, always so important to her, are slowly slipping away. It seems that all anyone can do is wait. Wait--for Michael to walk in the door. Wait--to stop missing him. Wait--to stop waiting. When a private detective can't uncover a single clue about Michael's disappearance, Jody's urgent need to find him drives her to make a last desperate attempt to hold her family together.From the Paperback edition.
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  • Rewind to Yesterday

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Paperback (Yearling, June 1, 1991)
    A magical VCR provides much fun for eleven-year-old Kelly, her twin brother Scott, and her best friend Miri, but traveling back in time becomes more serious when Miri's grandfather is shot in a robbery
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  • The Dead and the Gone

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Paperback (Susan Beth Pfeffer, Jan. 1, 1672)
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  • Truth or dare

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Hardcover (Four Winds Press, Aug. 16, 1984)
    When her two best friends leave to go to another school, eleven-year-old Cathy tries to replace them with the "perfect" Jessica.