When plague strikes the citadel, Non and the other students are evacuated to the ruined Cirtop Castle, and while there, she has the chance to study the demons that infected and killed her mother.

Mosquitoes don't bite Nala Simiyu. It's part of who she is, like being a half-Kenyan seventh-grader whose mother is in a wheelchair. But Nala's ability to repel mosquitoes attracts the interest of drug company scientists. Soon she's on a trip to Kenya to help investigate mosquito resistance in her father's family. Danger--and a kidnapper--intervene. Brave, fallible, compassionate and spirited, Nala is a strongly relatable character in a loving, imperfect...

Bunny askes everyone she knows how to make grape jelly, but when she gets wildly different responses she hops to her local library to track down the answer. Includes a recipe for grape jelly.

In 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, thirteen-year-old Lyza inherits a project from her deceased grandfather, who had been using his knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd.