Contents: Barbie, be my valentine / Cynthia Lawrence—Barbie's big prom / by Bette Lou Maybee—The Easter hat : a one-act play / by Bette Lou Maybee—The size 10 dress / by Cynthia Lawrence—The Michael tree / Cynthia Lawrence—Mirror Mirror, crystal ball / Bette Lou Maybee—Captain Hooten's return / by Cynthia Lawrence.

Just when talented Barbie Roberts begins to think Fame will never find her in her high school fashion design class, or in the small Midwestern town where she lives, Paula Foxx—noted California swimsuit designer—comes into her life. Paula is Lady Luck in person, offering Barbie an apprentice-designer's job on her staff at Sandcastle Swimsuit Company in San Francisco. For Barbie, the job is a dream come true. But she is jolted out of her rosy thoughts when she meets Linda Rhodes, teenage daughter of the company's owner. Linda makes it quite plain that she bitterly resents Barbie's position on the staff. Even the friendship of Linda's twin brother, Roddy, can't seem to stem the tide of vengeance working against Barbie. When the situation becomes critical, and even Paula Foxx can't help her, Barbie accidentally stumbles on the real reason behind Linda's behavior. What happens from then on provides a highly satisfactory climax to a lively story full of action and suspense that takes the reader on an insider's tour of the fascinating world of fashion design.

Teen Journal magazine sponsors an essay contest and, as a winner, Barbie wins a trip to New York where she will spend the summer working on a magazine. In New York she meets Pablo who is handsome enough to make most girls forget Ken Carson.

Barbie is hired by the Willows Guardian. While reporting on fashion news, she discovers a secret lurking in the past of a famous fashion designer, Dorian Root, who has recently returned to Willow after fifteen years working in New York.

Barbie Roberts rejoices when her parents announce she'll go with them to Hawaii for Christmas vacation. They'll be house guests of her father's Honolulu friends, the Haweses, who have a handsome son. But Gerald Hawes isn't quite the boy Barbie had looked forward to meeting. And when she defies his unfriendly mother by taking up the dangerous sport of surf riding with a Hawaiian boy, big trouble begins to brew. How Barbie copes with her problems provides lively adventure in a story that takes you on a colorful trip to our 50th state.

Many exciting things happen when an exchange student from Japan comes to live with the Roberts family and joins Barbie and her friends at Willows High.

A new "career-experience" program at Willow High gives Barbie the opportunity she has always dreamed of—to travel and to work in a real television studio.

Barbie works as a hospital candy-striper and, of course, finds romance.

Barbie and Skipper have some frightening experiences when they go on a trip to explore the desert with two sons of the family they are visiting in southern California. Searching for help when their car breaks down, they come upon a deserted mining town - Ghost Town, U. S. A. The menacing quiet that surrounds the dilapidated houses is shattered by a pistol shot - and then their adventure begins. After meeting some very strange characters and being forced into many dangerous and exciting situations, they solve the mystery that haunts the old abandoned mine.

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