Jane O'Connor

A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.

When Ms. Glass runs out of Backward Day ideas, Nancy comes up with a way to celebrate the day.

Nancy is furious when she cannot go to her friend Bree's butterfly-themed birthday party, but her family's outing might just be extraordinary enough to make her feel better. Includes facts about butterflies.

Nancy makes the best of not dancing the lead in her ballet school's Deep Sea Dances show, but becomes jealous when her best friend gets a better role than hers.

When Nancy's class hosts a swap-and-shop, Nancy finds the perfect tutu, but her mother tells her she already has too many tutus.

Nancy and her friend Bree explore the fascinating world of birds and insects in their exclusive and glamorous Explorers Extraordinaire Club.

When a rainstorm prevents Nancy and her best friend, Robert, from getting to the planetarium the night of a class field trip, she has a brilliant idea for making things better.

Fancy Nancy provides one or more of her favorite fancy words for each letter of the alphabet, defines them, and uses some in sentences that show what they mean to her, such as that she yearns--wants really badly--to visit Paris someday.

Nancy is about to lose her first tooth, but if she can prevent it from falling out until she arrives at school she will get a special necklace from the nurse.

Fancy Nancy enjoys raking the leaves in her yard with her family and tries to think of something creative to do with the leaves she collects.