“I love this sweet and quirky book—Fancy Nancy would have loved to be Mimi’s identical twin!” —Robin Preiss Glasser, illustrator of Fancy Nancy Mimi and her cat Marvin must adjust to life with an unexpected new neighbor in this hilarious, quirky, and heartwarming start to a brand-new illustrated chapter book series. Meet Mimi! She’s a cat-loving, convertible-driving, bucket-cake-baking girl who loves living in the Periwinkle Tower with her best pals, Yoshi and Tonya. When the friends learn that someone new is moving into the building just before Thanksgiving, Mimi hopes it will be a girl just like her to share all of her hobbies and adventures. But the new neighbor is not what Mimi envisioned at all. And by Christmas, things have gone from iffy…to bad…to worse! Will life in the Periwinkle Tower ever be as fabulous as it was before?

A collection of children stories filled with tools of empowerment and self-esteem. MiMi is a little girl in a big world. More than anything, MiMi wants to find her way. She is the youngest of four and in her very busy house it's hard to be heard. But MiMi finds her way, she finds her voice. MiMi is smart, funny and curious. She shares with her readers that big things come in small packages. Follow MiMi's adventures, struggles, and task of being seen in a world filled with strange and peculiar roads. Her adventures are fun, strong and creative. Every child will learn that if MiMi can do it, so can they. In part one of MiMi's Series, readers will learn how talented MiMi's family is, but MiMi has a secret talent of her own.

Mimi and her Periwinkle Tower pals are back in this sweet and silly sequel to It’s Not Easy Being Mimi! But after a series of friendship mishaps, will they still be able to stick together forever? Six members loyal, six members true. We’ll stick together, whatever we do! Mimi and her best friends Yoshi, Tonya, Boris, Hunter, and Sofie have formed the Gum Club, a special club where they eat gumballs from Boris’s gumball machine, recite the special Gum Club Promise to always stick together, and talk about important things, like the tunnel they are digging behind the Periwinkle Tower where they might even find dinosaur bones or buried treasure. But it’s hard to keep a group of six friends together no matter what. Yoshi has to go to Reading Boot Camp all summer for help learning to read. Tonya is getting annoyed with Yoshi for playing his ukulele too loudly, and she gets bossy while they’re digging in the tunnel. Then Mimi says something that hurts Yoshi’s feelings and she is having trouble apologizing. Is the Gum Club bubble about to burst?

A collection of children stories filled with tools of empowerment and self-esteem. MiMi is a little girl in a big world. More than anything, MiMi wants to find her way. She is the youngest of four and in her very busy house it's hard to be heard. But MiMi finds her way, she finds her voice. MiMi is smart, funny and curious. She shares with her readers that big things come in small packages. Follow MiMi's adventures, struggles, and task of being seen in a world filled with strange and peculiar roads. Her adventures are fun, strong and creative. Every child will learn that if MiMi can do it, so can they. In part one of MiMi's Series, readers will learn how talented MiMi's family is, but MiMi has a secret talent of her own. In part two "The Bully," MiMi meets the new kid that's not so nice. Will MiMi learn to deal with her biggest fear? Read and find out how MiMi faces "The Bully."

A collection of children stories filled with tools of empowerment and self-esteem. MiMi is a little girl in a big world. More than anything, MiMi wants to find her way. She is the youngest of four and in her very busy house it's hard to be heard. But MiMi finds her way, she finds her voice. MiMi is smart, funny and curious. She shares with her readers that big things come in small packages. Follow MiMi's adventures, struggles, and task of being seen in a world filled with strange and peculiar roads. Her adventures are fun, strong and creative. Every child will learn that if MiMi can do it, so can they. In part one of MiMi's Series, readers will learn how talented MiMi's family is, but MiMi has a secret talent of her own. In part two "The Bully," MiMi meets the new kid that's not so nice. Will MiMi learn to deal with her biggest fear? Read and find out how MiMi faces "The Bully."

A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s Over Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the earnestness of both hippies and punks in the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking group she encounters at the Imperial Café, where she makes the transformation from Margaret to Madge. At first she mimics these new and exotic grown-up friends, trying on the guise of adulthood with some awkward but funny stumbles. Gradually she realizes that the adults she looks up to are a mess of contradictions, misplaced artistic ambitions, sexual confusion, dependencies, and addictions. Over Easy is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California—with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex, and drug use—and bildungsroman of a young woman who grows from a naïve, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout into a self-aware, self-confident artist. Mimi Pond's chatty, slyly observant anecdotes create a compelling portrait of a distinct moment in time. Over Easy is an immediate, limber, and precise semi-memoir narrated with an eye for the humor in every situation.

On a dark and stormy night one object after another joins in making eerie noises in the old house.