Roberta Olsen Major

Pep squad drop-out. Barbara's giving the high school speech team a try this year--but she's burned out on practices before the school year even starts! Maybe pom-poms aren't so bad after all?

Lady Elene, sheltered and naive, follows her twin brother from England--and soon finds herself in a struggle to survive in the rough and fertile country of the American Colonies. Glen Rose, carrying the deep wounds of a broken childhood, leaves a tavern-keeper's bed, and finds her heart is a place rich with possibilities. Daughters of letter-writing cousins Catherine and Fraser of Letters From the Attic, Book One: Yours in Haste, Elene and Glen Rose correspond with each other as their paths carr... more info>>

Nellie Farmer has always been the best source of gossip--and baked goods--in the town of Williams Trace, Texas. Plump as a dumpling, lonely as a heifer in a flock of sheep, and feeling bleak about her life and prospects, Nellie opens her second-best rent room to a handsome young stranger with mischief--and vengeance--on his mind. He's a charmer--and Nellie is ripe for the charming. But promises, so they say, are like piecrusts...easily broken.

Emma is skating. She does her homework, puts in hours at her uncle's roller rink, and still hangs out with the same kids she's known since middle school. She's living in the present and ignoring the future--until, one stormy night, the past comes back to haunt her.

Unwisely, Jumanah's daughter confronts the wicked suzerain, setting her feet on a path into darkness, across moon-drenched desert sands, and at last to hard-won wisdom. Who is Jumanah's daughter--and would someone please tell her where that voice in her ear is coming from?

It's hard being the imperfect daughter of the perfect couple. Tally's mother is the beautiful Snow White, her father, the former Prince Charming. When they decide it's time for Tally to choose a consort, she does what any self-respecting princess would do under the same circumstances--she runs! With a few hints from her six vertically-challenged honorary uncles, Tally sets off on a quest to find the missing seventh dwarf--and along the way finds some answers to questions about herself and her fu... more info>>