Fleming Community Library

There's only room for one queen bee in this story about school mothers. A look at female friendship, power plays, and the joys and perils of trying to do one's part.

When Nora Banks goes to answer the doorbell very early one November 1st, she thinks it must be a group of teen pranksters still out trick-or-treating. But, it's no prank-it's the Feds, who have come to arrest her husband Evan for a white collar crime. Nora's enviable, privileged life in the eighteenth-century house she'd quit her job to renovate to museum-quality perfection, is upended in an instant. The Bedford wives close ranks against Nora and...

Three more easy-to-read stories reveal the close friendship between a dachshund named Dog and a stuffed bead

Jenny loses most of her friends and suffers the verbal abuse of classmates when she befriends a black girl who has moved with her family into Jenny's duplex and shares her interest in horses.