A great junior fiction series about what makes us do the naughty things we do! The imp in Biddy’s hair thinks she should be Biddy’s best friend, but Biddy longs for a human best-friend. All the girls at school already have best friends, so Biddy plans to find a friend outside of school. Her plan is to head to the park on Friday with her Frisbee and see what transpires... But Mum is ‘expecting again’, and is too tired to take Biddy to the park. So Biddy accuses her mum of not wanting Biddy to have a friend, and then yells at her. When Biddy is sent straight to her room to think things through for ten minutes, it is the start of a whole string of consequences that get more and disastrous as the day wears on. The next day is even worse... especially as the imp does her best to keep Biddy for herself.

It’s school holidays, and all Brigid wants is a best friend of her very own. Mum doesn’t seem to care now that she is ‘expecting-again’. If only Dad would take Brigid to the Botanic Gardens, she might meet a best friend there. And she really is trying to be good and do the right thing. Maybe Granny and her Magic Friendship Spell will do the trick.

In the title, the word "wants" is crossed out and replaced with "needs."

A great junior fiction series about what makes us do the naughty things we do! Brigid Lucy tries to be good, but it doesn’t always work. This could be due to the invisible imp hiding in her hair. When Biddy’s pet slug dies in tragic circumstances, Dad promises to buy Biddy a new pet. But Dad is allergic to almost every pet in the pet shop and the consequence is a menagerie of mayhem! Things are made even worse when the invisible imp in Biddy’s hair decides to get involved. She can’t help but encourage Biddy into trouble.

Funny, poignant, and deeply moving, The Line Tender is a story of nature's enduring mystery and a girl determined to find meaning and connection within it. Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart's marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, collecting shark data when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and her father have kept their heads above water--thanks in large part to a few close friends and neighbors. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a great white--and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was "meaningful" but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive the fresh wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line that connects her depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widower to her mother's unfinished research on the Great White's return to Cape Cod. If Lucy can find a way to help this unlikely quartet follow the sharks her mother loved, she'll finally be able to look beyond what she's lost and toward what's left to be discovered. ★"Confidently voiced."—Kirkus Reviews, starred ★"Richly layered."—Publishers Weekly, starred ★"A hopeful path forward."—Booklist, starred ★"Life-affirming."—BCCB, starred ★"Big-hearted." —Bookpage, starred ★“Will appeal to just about everyone.” – SLC, starred ★"Exquisitely, beautifully real."—Shelf Awareness, starred

New York Times bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer pens a new emotionally compelling story about two teens struggling in the space between right and wrong. When his dad is caught embezzling funds from half the town, Rob goes from popular lacrosse player to social pariah. Even worse, his father's failed suicide attempt leaves Rob and his mother responsible for his care. Everyone thinks of Maegan as a typical overachiever, but she has a secret of her own after the pressure got to her last year. And when her sister comes home from college pregnant, keeping it from her parents might be more than she can handle. When Rob and Maegan are paired together for a calculus project, they're both reluctant to let anyone through the walls they've built. But when Maegan learns of Rob's plan to fix the damage caused by his father, it could ruin more than their fragile new friendship . . . In her compulsively readable storytelling, Brigid Kemmerer pens another captivating, heartfelt novel that asks the question: Is it okay to do something wrong for the right reasons?