As Vic enters eighth grade, she has a number of things to think about: her grandmother's wedding, her friend Chel's feelings about becoming a Christian, and the mysteries of falling in love.
Junior-high-age Victoria learns to deal with a young brother's learning disability, wins a writing contest, and remembers that God loves people just the way they are.
Victoria's summer at a resort in Minnesota, far from her Minneapolis friends, forces her to rely on her own resources and results in a new appreciation for her family.
Besides the embarrassment of her pregnant mother's coming to school and her grandmother's working on a school production, Victoria must deal with her own mixed desires of being a star or remaining safely backstage.
The summer after sixth grade, Vic tries to prepare for seventh grade so she won't be a nerd, has problems with her best friend, and worries about her grandmother's health.
Vic's first semester at junior high brings her worries: a rowdy but popular guy has a crush on her, she gets sent to the principal's office for mishaving, and her parents begin arguing.
An action-packed weekly program that creatively introduces children to God through the guidance of caring adults. Boys and girls in grades 1-6 learn and interact with each other in activities geared to place all children on an equal participation level.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, Paris was the second largest city in Europe, with a population of some half a million. Contemporary writers described it as anonymous and chaotic, and so it must have seemed to many new arrivals from the provinces. Yet the records of the local police officials, which have remained virtually untouched for two hundred years, reveal a world which was far from anonymous, where most people went about their daily affairs in streets and shops where not only the places but also the faces were familiar. From the mass of individual disputes and incidents reported to the police in each quarter there emerges a picture of a structured, largely self-regulating local community based first and foremost on neighbourhood ties. This study explores the way that such communities functioned and were maintained, and in the process touches on many aspects of life in eighteenth-century Paris.
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