Fifteen-year-old Jenny Middle struggles to hold her family together despite poverty, constant moves, the jail sentence and drunkenness of her mother, and a sister tragically involved with drugs.The title has been changed to UNSETTLED on the ebook edition, issued in 2011. This timeless story of growing up forty years ago will be as relevant and moving to girls of today as it was to those who read it when first published.

Thursey is too strong-willed to be intimidated by her stepsisters with their cruel taunts claiming that her father died a coward in the recent wars. She defies them, hiding the little books she makes that preserve a variety of Cinderella stories from around the world--tales she hears from travelers on the high road who take shelter at the inn run by her stepmother. She knows the sisters would destroy the small, handmade books, for in their view, it is unnatural for a common girl to know how to read.But when the king’s summer gala draws near and Thursey is, as usual, left at home, she takes charge of her own fate. With help from a traveling monk and a friendly goatherd, she secretly prepares to attend the ball. Does she have help, as well, from the ugly white mare whom she loves? And will she gain more than a rare evening of happiness, perhaps even the joy of new-found love?This vivid Cinderella retelling with a spunky and inventive heroine, set in a medieval European village, is a romance enjoyed by YA readers as well as younger ones. Those who have been searching for it will be happy to know that it’s back in print.

When Tattie's house floats away on a flooded river, she takes in several animals and people and has a wonderful ride.

It was a good dump, Rory the kangaroo rat decided, altho he had no intention of staying long. Just a few days rest, and then he'd be off. But that was before he found the model airplane with its motor still pretty much intact. Ever since he'd spent a winter at an airfield and listened to the pilots and mechanics talk, he'd longed to fly.But before he could hide the plane and then begin to work on it, Charlie Gribble came along--a boy as interested in the plane as Rory. Charlie was in the dump looking for a safe place for his pet lemming, Crispin, which the housekeeper had just thrown out of the house.Together, the three of them made a good team. What one couldn't do, the other could. And the plane soon became a real plane--one that could fly on its own, with controls inside it. The only problem was a huge flock of starlings that had recently descended on the garbage part of the dump. They were a nuisance for the whole town, but they were a real menace to Rory, Charlie and Crispin every step of the way.How the Fox was rebuilt, how the three unlikely collaborators did their work, the attempts of the town to drive aaway the starlings and the final victory of the Fox and its crew add up to a book that blends technology, fantasy and real problems in new and interesting ways.

Bethany's talent for ESP takes a new direction when her visions take her to another place.

There is only one way to go: north toward their old home by the sea—the ranch that had been sold, and their beloved horses sold, when their parents were killed in the car accident. Running away from the drunken and abusive uncle with whom they’d been sent to live, Karen and Tom know they are taking the most obvious route, but no other place draws them.It’s a long journey before they reach the coast and discover the one place where wild ponies roam, ponies that people call magical—and where they tangle with a gang of thieves. Escaping, they find shelter with a group of honest, kind and mismatched new friends, not all of them what they seem. They don’t know then, longing so for their horses, that Karen’s buckskin pony yearns for bis old home too, where he had been bom—but that pony is as stubborn as Karen.This haunting story, like Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s other horse book, White Ghost Summer, has been enjoyed by many readers who will be happy to find back in print.

The fabulous Shirley Rousseau Murphy—whose “Joe Grey” mysteries are the cat’s meow—enchants once again, as a delightful duo of feline mamas sinks their claws into a murder investigation.