The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social ClimberAfter the collapse of her parents marriage, Mimi Schulman leaves her mother in Houston to look after her befuddled photographer father in New York. Too preoccupied with family problems to think much about her new life, Mimis first hour at The Baldwin Schoolan institution where teachers offer psychoanalysis in lieu of grades and students hold cocktail parties in the bathroom between classesleaves her spinning. When Sam, her childhood best friend, bets

This bear cub

Burr’s broken wing and coaxes Coo from her isolated life

Cynthia Rylant's lyrical language and Jill Kastner's rich

Together they must sail to Africa

or roamed by fearsome monsters

To save the man she loves

and The Edible Woman

Stefan is held prisoner in the Dark Dimension—a world where vampires and demons roam free

and flawless world building

Marie-Aude Rose

His fierce

and Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational