Catherine Ryan Hyde

A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.

One day, something’s going to snap. . . .

Ernie doesn't have a lot of friends at school. Just Will. They have stuff in common—like fishing. But more important, they have common enemies: the school jocks, who seem to find bullying just another sport.
For the most part, Ernie and Will take life at high school in stride. Until Will has one very bad day. Now nothing is remotely funny. Ernie finds himself a witness—to...

While duck hunting one morning, childless, middle-aged Nathan McCann finds a newborn abandoned in the woods. To his shock, the child is still alive. To his wife's shock, Nathan wants to adopt the boy, but the child's grandmother steps in. Nathan makes her promise, however, that one day she'll bring the boy to meet him so he can reveal that he was the one who rescued him. Fifteen years later, the widowered Nathan discovers the child abandoned...

Raised off the grid by his survivalist father in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies. He is found--near feral, silent, and terrified--in the small rural town of Blaire. To Anne, a nurturing mother of two adopted teenagers who's still dealing with her own childhood rejections, Remy is not a lost cause. Just a challenging one. As Remy cautiously adapts...

After the death of her best friend and business partner, a high-powered Manhattan lawyer seeks a new life on a ramshackle farm in the Adirondacks, complete with squatters who she allows to stay, despite believing she doesn't want company.

Rescuing seven puppies from a nearby river, 13-year-old Abby, whose cruel father makes life miserable, hides the puppies in an abandoned cabin where she meets a grieving widower named Elliot who helps her — and her mother — find the courage to be free.