Ann M. Martin

Rose Howard has OCD, Asperger's syndrome, and an obsession with homonyms. She gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign and Rein). Rose and Rain are practically inseparable. And they are often home alone, as Rose's father spends most evenings at a bar, and doesn't have much patience for his special-needs daughter. Just as a storm hits town, Rain goes missing. Rose's father shouldn't have let Rain out. Now Rose has to find her dog, even if...

Flora worries about her first Thanksgiving without her parents, while Ruby worries about getting a part in the school musical, and their new friends, Olivia and Nikki, are adjusting to big changes in their families.

When Kristy Thomas's mother decides to get married again, Kristy and her friends in the Baby-sitters Club have to cope with all the small children that her family and friends are bringing to the wedding.

Claudia's grief over her grandmother Mimi's death goes unexpressed -- leaving Claudia unable to move forward with her life -- until she pours out her emotions to her sister and learns to see beyond her pain.

After their parents die, Flora and her sister Ruby move to Camden Falls to live with their grandmother, Min.

When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play on a softball team, she starts a ragtag team of her own. Maybe Kristy's Krushers aren't world champions (how could they be, with Jackie Rodowsky, walking disaster, playing for them?), but nobody beats them when it comes to team spirit. Now Bart's Bashers have challenged the Krushers to a game. It's bad enough that the Bashers truly are lean and mean -- but what's worse is that Kristy...

Mary Anne is desperate to find her missing kitten, Tigger, and her friends in the Baby-sitters Club help her with her search, but in the meantime the children for whom Mary Anne babysits develop inexplicable allergies.

Flora, Ruby, Olivia, and Nikki form a secret book club after books start mysteriously showing up on their doorstep.

Flora finds herself in a middle of a fight between her old best friend Annika, who comes to Camden Falls for a visit, and her new best friend Olivia.

When a new girl named Willow moves into the Willets' house, Flora, Ruby, Olivia, and Nikki hope that she will be their friend, but she seems to be hiding something from them, and there is something very odd about her mother.