"The Thea Sisters are going to New Zealand! Their new friend Charlotte wants to show them the sights, and take them to the mouseum to see Didi, a skeleton of a bird that went extinct many years ago. But Didi has gone missing! Can they find the stolen skeleton before it is too late?"--

Manuela "Mani" Semilla wants two things: to get her period, and to thwart her mom's plan of taking her to Guatemala. Mani can't imagine leaving behind Las Nerdas, her band of misfit friends, for the summer. But after she finds letters written between her mother and her disappeared-journalist aunt, Mani's idea of what it means to be a woman takes flight. Reading the letters reveals both the beauty of Guatemala and its history of violence against women,...

"Thirteen-year-old Maya has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her. Mami's side of the family is known as "Los Locos," so maybe she actually is going crazy. But no time for that; the family business is where it's at. Whenever Maya, her sister Salma, and her three cousins, aren't at school, you can usually find three generations of Calderones at Café Ťaza, serving up sandwiches. One day, an unexpected visit from the estranged...

New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.

When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.

When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles--the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin Valley for generations--from the oppressive regime.

When twelve-year-old Alice, who receives messages from the dead, discovers a man with a deadly sunlight allergy was murdered, she and the victim's niece work together to uncover the truth.

Takes beginning readers on a research boat to the North Pole where they can discover the many types of scientists.

Encourages the reader to get Bear ready for bed with a bubble bath, rocking him like a baby, and helping him count sheep.

"The Nguyen kids are going on vacation! It's their first time in Vietnam and staying in Grandma Nội's childhood home, so they should be excited. As soon as they enter the house, though, something doesn't feel right. Why is the door to the ancestors' room always closed? And why can't they connect with Grandma Nội using their gifts, the way they can at home?"--