Liz Rosenberg

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud's personal life. Her childhood was spent with...

A biography of the author of "Little Women" describes how she struggled to achieve her dream of becoming an author and discusses her private life and her accompishments.

A little girl ignores her best friend James after she hears rumors that he has been talking about her, but soon realizes that she misses his friendship.

A little girl fixes up her mother's old scrap doll and learns that something made at home with love can be much better than the most beautiful store-bought present.

Patrick Edward's fierce monster mother helps him deal with some obnoxious bullies.

Animals act out verbs beginning with each letter of the alphabet.

A young girl relishes the magical atmosphere of the beach at night when she goes for a moonlit stroll with her older cousin.

With the help of his magician uncle, a young boy finds his special elephant toy.

For misfit Libby Archer, social expectations for young women in Rochester, New York, in the mid-1950s don't work. Her father has died, leaving her without parents, and her well-meaning friends are pressuring her to do what any sensible single girl must do: marry a passionate, persistent hometown suitor with a promising future. Yet Libby boldly defies conventional wisdom and plans to delay marriage--to anyone--by departing for her uncle's Belfast estate....