Seventh-grader Izzy, a shy girl who surprisingly loves acting and being onstage, wonders if her family will ever be normal again after her father announces that he is transgender.

"Hearts collide when a sheriff's daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justice and rid a small town of her corrupt father"--

In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.

Determined to get her autistic brother into an appropriate therapy program in spite of her stepfather's denial, Lily bonds with a sick dolphin who helps her brother and who Lily considers releasing from captivity.

Receiving an unexpected inheritance from the father who abandoned her, 40-year-old widow Ilka Nichols Jenson impulsively travels from Copenhagen to her late father's mortuary in Wisconsin and begins to comb through his estate before stumbling on an unsolved murder.

This lyrical picture book centers around Olivia, who, worrying about her first-responder father while he's at work, anxiously awaits his return, knowing that when he gets home, the evening will be full of love and fun.

Two possible futures face Summer: either she will spend the summer in Provence with her father, uncovering family secrets, and exploring the old world, or she will stay in upstate New York, coping with her mother, and dreaming of her long time crush--and which future unfolds will depend on whether or not she answers a phone call.

Lily and Charlotte are as different as two thirteen-year-olds can be, but they are spending the summer together in a small beach house because their parents are dating; trouble is, they can't stop sniping at each other--until an accident gives them a new perspective on their lives.

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.

Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves marching band (where she plays the glockenspiel), to make some...