From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Sister troubleKaren loves her stepsister Kristy. Then Daddy gives Kristy a special pin. Karen is jealous. She wants the pin. But Kristy will not let Karen even borrow it. Karen borrows the pin anyway. Then she loses it in the snow. Uh-oh. Now what is Karen going to do?
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! It’s Karen’s special day!It’s Karen’s birthday! She can’t wait for all those presents. Karen is even having two parties -- one at Daddy’s house and one at Mommy’s. But what Karen really wants for her birthday is one party, with her whole family together. Will Karen’s birthday wish come true?
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Good-bye, Stoneybrook!Karen is moving to Chicago for six months, with Mommy, Andrew, and Seth. Karen wants to be with her little-house family. But leaving her big-house family will be hard. And Karen will miss her friends and her school a lot too. She will try her best to like Chicago. But what if she misses Stoneybrook too much?
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Karen Brewer, Big SisterEverybody used to love Karen. She was cute. She was the littlest sister. But now baby Emily is in their family, and Karen feels left out. Then Emily gets sick and everybody has to take care of her. Even Karen. And that’s when Karen finds out that being a big sister is the most fun of all!
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Is she Mrs. Porter . . . or a witch? Karen lives next door to an old lady named Mrs. Porter. Mrs. Porter wears long black robes and has wild gray hair. Her black cat is named Midnight. No wonder Karen thinks Mrs. Porter is a witch!Mrs. Porter is having a meeting at her house. Karen is sure the meeting is for witches. Are the witches going to cast a spell on Karen? Or will she be brave enough to send them away -- once and for all?
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Will Karen's wish come true?Karen can't wait for Christmas! She and Andrew are writing to Santa, baking cookies, and decorating their tree. Karen is even learning about other holidays like Hanukkah. She is all ready for the big day. But then Karen's grandmother Nannie gets sick. And now Karen doesn't want Christmas to come at all unless she gets her one wish!
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Accidents HappenKaren wants to play outside. Mommy tells her not to go in the treehouse. It is too dangerous. But Karen climbs up anyway. Then she slips and falls. Karen is rushed to the hospital. She has to have an operation. It is going to be scary. But Karen is going to be brave.
"Soo Thah: A Tale of the Making of the Karen Nation" is a story about the spread of Christianity in Burma and the life of people as the first Christians saw it. According to the author: "The aim of the story is to give a photographic view of the daily life of the heathen Hillmen of Burma; of the entrance of the Gospel among them; and of its triumphant results as a transforming and uplifting power."
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! The New KarenKaren feels like an ugly duckling. Her baby teeth are all falling out, and she has to wear glasses, too! Karen needs a new haircut to make her look glamorous. But the beauty parlor lady cuts Karen’s hair all wrong. Now she's uglier than ever! What will all the kids at school say?
In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations of American pop styles flourished—and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound significance for her—as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound, while finding the beauty in the singer's all too brief life.
