Books in Ally's World series

Allie loves Sunday dinners with her family. She loves the yummy arroz and pollo they eat. She loves spending time with her granddad and grandma, Abuelo and Abuela. And she loves the funny stories everyone shares at the table. But when Abuela tells stories in Spanish, Allie feels left out because she's the only one in the family who doesn't understand the language. Allie is anxious to know What did Abuela say? And Abuela is going to help her learn. This is the first book in a series called Allie's World, which focuses on little Allie and her Puerto Rico-American family.

Meet the Love children: oh-so-perfect Linn, airy-fairy Rowan, animal-obsessed Tor - and Ally, trying to have a normal life somewhere in the middle of it all. Which isn't easy when you live in a house that's a cross between an animal hospital and something out of 'Changing Rooms'. And then there's school and the small matter of the forgotten history project and the obnoxious new girl that - oh joy! - Ally's been nominated to look after. It's going to be a fun couple of weeks...This is the first in the wildly successful, utterly loveable "Ally's World" series.

Allie has waited and waited. Finally the day of the big neighborhood block party has come. At a block party there are so many exciting things to do. Jump rope, play freeze-tag and hide and seek with friends. Taste the yummy dishes that the neighbors bring. Listen to the musicians play the bongos, trumpet and guitars. Cool off with an icy piragua. But the weatherman has forecasted rain. Will the rain stay away so Allie can enjoy all the fun that she has been waiting for?

Welcome to my world. It's weird but kind of wonderful. For once, Ally's looking forward to school - well, the last week of it anyway. There's a fun run and - joy - the legendary end-of-term party. But that's before Kyra starts smuggling illegal pets into school, and then expects Ally to deal with the fall-out. But Ally's got her own problems to deal with, not least a game of Spin the Bottle that goes weirdly, worrisomely wrong...

Welcome to my world: it's weird, but kind of wonderful...Ally knows love makes you do funny stuff, but it doesn't explain Grandma's behaviour. Sure, she's got a lot on her mind with the wedding in just a few weeks, but what's with all the secrecy? And Grandma's not the only one bitten by the love-bug. It seems Ally's little brother has a crush on his new teacher - trouble is, so does Dad ...Eek.