Facing a disintegrating home life and trouble at school, teenager Ian McDermott runs away with his younger brother to Washington State in search of safety, justice, and their long-absent father.

When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.

"In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in--and certain death on her husband's funeral pyre--only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British colonizers spreads, she must choose between relative safety in a British household or standing up for herself and her people"--

The children, who are spending the summer in a lighthouse on the New England coast, are disturbed by a mysterious woman walking the lighthouse grounds. Jessie's dog Watch wakes up growling almost every evening at midnight, and Henry finds a puzzling note in the sand.

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth: Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches. The...

"Samirah, a spirited Arabian filly, has been carefully raised and trained by her girl, Jasper, on a struggling dude ranch near the Green River in Utah. Sami and Jasper, both searching for their place in the world, bond on their joyous rides together and become so close that each will do anything for the other. As the ranch's fortunes decline, Jasper fears that her beloved horse will be sold. Desperate, she concocts a plan that unwittingly brings the...

In 1942, when life turns sour at the carnival that has always been her home, eleven-year-old Bee takes her dog, Peabody, and piglet, Cordelia, and sets out to find a real home, aided by two women only Bee and her pets can see.