To retrieve a beloved childhood treasure hidden in her old home, Effie breaks into Greenoaks during a huge party, and, while sneaking around the house, hears conversations that make her see her family in a new light—and wonder what she really came here to find.

Celebrates all that parents do with and for their children from the very beginning.

Seventh-grader Kita embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.

Told in assonant free verse, Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his dream.