A daughter's promise
Julie Ellis
Iris and Laura, the daughters of Jacob Roth, leave Georgia behind and launch drives, respectively, for a shaky film career and a wide-ranging real-estate empire, for which Laura dares everything.

by Jean Ure (1985)
When her pretty, talented, but willful younger sister becomes her rival for a role in a local show, eleven-year-old Nicola reluctantly steps aside but finds that her own special talents have not gone unnoticed.
Julie Ellis
Iris and Laura, the daughters of Jacob Roth, leave Georgia behind and launch drives, respectively, for a shaky film career and a wide-ranging real-estate empire, for which Laura dares everything.
Norma Klein
The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan by eleven-year-old Bernadette's mother and stepfather marks the beginning of a period of changing family relationships.
Barbara Brooks Wallace
After she accidentally knocks a hot iron on her sister's hand, a little Russian girl waits in terror for the two bad things to follow the first as her grandmother predicted.
Johanna Hurwitz
Five-year-old Elisa has an older brother and a new baby brother, but her elderly neighbor says the middle is the best, just like the filling in a sandwich.