Books in Friends for Keeps series

Summer camp is more fun when you have Friends for Keeps! It's Ida May's first time at sleepaway camp, and her two BFFs, popular Stacey and highly organized Jenna, are also coming along. But when they arrive at camp, their bunkmate is the last person Ida expected to ever see again: Elizabeth Evans, her last best friend who moved away before the start of this series. Ida was heartbroken when Liz didn't answer her letters, and now Liz won't even apologize. All the other girls are ready to welcome Liz back, but Ida just can't be the peacemaker this time. Not until she and Liz talk. Chockablock with fourth-grade wisdom, laughter, jealousies--and apologies--this conclusion to the series is a must read for all Ida May fans.

Ida May finally fits in at school after becoming best friends with Stacey Merriweather, who is universally liked by their classmates. But then Ida?s frenemy, bossy Jenna Drews, brings in a game of truth or dare, and all the girls are suddenly daring one another to misbehave. When Ida finds herself in the principal?s office, she?s scared into ratting out her friends and gets freezed out of the group. The only way she can fix things is to take a triple-dog dare: letting one of the girls pierce her ears. Will her BFF come to her rescue, or is this the perfect job for a frenemy? Packed with fourth-grade jealousies, problems, misbehavior, and consequences, this third book about Ida May stands on its own.

Simple food, well prepared, is one of life's great pleasures and when friends and family are part of the equation, cooking and sharing become all the more enjoyable. In a series that spans everything from casual barbecues to the tagines of Morocco, from nutritious ways with vegetables to the classic dishes of Italy, the recipes capture the spirit of a cuisine and the spirit of an occasion. There are feature spreads on specific ingredients and techniques, step-by-step photos, and suggestions for variations to the recipes.

Friendships are shifting for Ida May, and all because Jenna and Brooke (former BFFs) are feuding. No one knows what started the fight, but soon the girls in class have taken sides, with Ida May stuck in the middle. Does Ida have what it takes to understand the true nature of Jenna and Brooke's real friendship and figure out the way to bring them, and the rest of the class, together?

When the Witch of Barren Hollow comes to collect her due (Jordan Wheeler’s first-born child on the eve of the child’s third birthday), Curtis Wheeler is taken from his loving, tame family life and whisked away into a world where curses, goblins, and fae are real and every bit as dangerous as the folk tales say. It is therefore a very good thing that Curtis Wheeler is no ordinary child. He finds nothing but satisfaction in his new situation; miraculously enjoying life in the home of the hostile witch and ultimately discovering that he is the Keeper of Barren Hollow. At the age of seven, due to a highly unusual sequence of events, Curtis meets with his predecessor, Kinlea Waltham, the current Keeper of Haneth’s End, and together with a kitten who fancies himself the greatest thief in the world, they set out to find and rescue Barren Hollow’s cursed and alienated guardians. This task in itself is easier said than done, but the witch sets out to make it impossible, attacking Curtis’ and Kinlea’s every weakness along the way. After all, if they fail and she succeeds, she can erase the effects of her life’s greatest regret: helping Kinlea live to save the world.