When Nicola gives birth at her best friend Olivia's seventeenth birthday party, the lives of five teenagers are changed forever--and in the months that follow Nicola, Olivia, Jonty, Ben, and Olivia's eleven-year-old sister, Alice, struggle with their changed relationships.

Is your mama a llama? Lloyd the llama is looking for his mama. "Is your mama a llama?" he asks a bat, a swan, a cow, a seal, and a kangaroo. Young children will share Lloyd's delight when the answer to his question is finally, "Yes!" Three cheers for Catherine the Great : Sara's feisty Russian grandmother asks for "no presents" for her birthday -- and gets them -- just in time for the borscht and blintzes party! Five creatures : Told from a small...