A fifteen-year-old boy struggles with a neighborhood bully and summer school while helping to look after his younger cousin.

When the students of East High are encouraged to wear costumes that represent what they would like to be someday to the annual Halloween Festival, Gabriella wonders if Troy has the same ideas about where they are headed.

When young Halli Sveinsson takes a practical joke too far, he is forced to leave the House of Svein and go on a hero's quest where he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and a girl who may be as fearless as he is.

Fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father had an illegitimate child, now an eight-year-old boy who lives in the same town, and she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her family and life.

Entering junior high school can be scary for any seventh grader. Imagine the heightened anxiety of also having to hide the fact that you're a mermaid from your human peers. Failing miserably, Diam accidently reveals her secret to third amiga and best friend, Teagan Jones. Much to Diam's surprise, this triggers her ninja response.

When a fifteen-year-old boy discovers that his newly acquired shoes have been stolen, he and his friends set out on a journey to get them back.

The bond shared among football prodigy Grayson, romantic surfer Mike, and army brat Ian is tested by a family tragedy, a devastating injury, financial setbacks, and broken codes about dating each other's sisters and ex-girlfriends.

Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.

Spending the summer before her senior year at a camp for gifted and talented students, Gloria struggles with the recent loss of her grandmother while trying to meet new friends and make the best of her new circumstances.

It's 1967, and for young Richard it's a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family from California to his grandmother's abandoned home in Utah; and his parents make the painful decision to separate. With uncertainty rattling every corner of his life, Richard does his best to remain strong--but when he's run down by bullies at his new school,...