Lily is shocked when her best friends Clare and Dante disappear after their mother is arrested. They’re just kids! She knows they ran away because the authorities suspected them of growing vegetables illegally. But Clare and her little brother aren’t the ones with the most to hide. Without her friends’ knowledge, Lily had started a…
Clare tapped the packet lightly, the open end down. Two tiny specks, flat and tear-shaped, fell into her other hand… “Seeds,” Clare explained, “make food.” “Get out of here!” Lily cried. “You can’t make food. Everyone knows that food comes from Stores and from Delivery Trucks if you have government ration tickets—but people can’t make…
Teenager Joy Christianson always was the life of the party, but all that changed when her best friend committed suicide. Now all Joy wants is to reconnect with Melanie. She wants to know WHY. She needs closure. When some of her new friends tell her how she can find these answers using a Ouija board,…
Carmen Castillo is major unimpressed with her parents’ divorce. How come Dad gets to live in the fabulous family home in the right neighborhood, and she has to live with Mom and two sisters in an apartment on the wrong side of the tracks? Not only can Carmen no longer play tennis at the Country…
Strange things happen to Jackson Jones, age ten-and-a-half. In his first adventure, he got lost in Great Aunt Harriet’s hair. More recently, a big umbrella and a bigger wind propelled him to a very strange–and yes, BIG–tree. So big it has an elevator with an operator, Sir Shaw. Jackson only wants to go home, but…
18-year-old Finley Sinclair has been struggling since the death of her beloved brother Will, a CNN correspondent in Afghanistan. When Will had been her age, he’d spent a glorious year as an exchange student in Ireland. Now Finley is armed with her brother’s journal and is determined to follow in his every footstep, certain that…