Kiowa County Public Library District

Nancy is excited about her new babysitter coming over and has the whole evening planned out. But things don't turn out quite the way she expected. Her babysitter, Alex, is a teenager, but Alex is a boy, not a girl!

Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppsitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.

Nancy is delighted that the new boy in her class is from Paris and sets out to become his friend, then discovers that this Parisian is not quite as fancy as she had thought.

"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."--

Nancy, who likes to use fancy words, is dismayed to be partnered with shy classmate Lionel for the school talent show until she comes up with an act perfectly suited for both of them.

Nancy writes a report for school about her great-grandfather, making things up so he seems less ordinary, but when she learns that Grandpa will be there to hear her read the report aloud she realizes she was dishonest.

Collects six stories depicting Fancy Nancy's humorous adventures as she stays up late, wears her nightgown to school, observes the stars, bakes cupcakes for a bake sale, performs in a talent show, and writes a book report.

Inspired by such art masters as Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, and Jackson Pollock, Nancy, who likes to use fancy words, dons her beret to create her own fabulous artwork.

Nancy's Magic 8 Ball doesn't work ever since JoJo dropped it. And the paper fortune-tellers that Nancy and Bree love making never give answers you can count on. Then all of a sudden Nancy starts predicting things that do come true! Can she really see the future? All signs seems to point to yes! So Nancy tries her hand at fortune-telling during recess. What she sees, however, isn't the future; she sees that she's gotten herself into a big, BIG problem....

As her third-grade class makes its selections for the "Graveyard of Boring Words" and learns about "superb synonyms," slow-footed Nancy enthusiastically plays on the soccer team, with the goal of just being mediocre, or maybe even a little better than average.