After losing her mother to cancer, thirteen-year-old Kat O'Connor struggles to keep her life in balance despite the turmoil surrounding her and the prejudice she sees directed against her friend the General, an unstable homeless man.

Product Description: Macey McAllister, "Niner" to her classmates, is missing a lot of things--her thumb, her birth parents, her history--and now her adoptive mother had disappeared as well. So one morning when Macy finds a locket on her front lawn, she is convinced that it is a sign, something placed there just for her...read more

Tremendously burdened by a secret guilt, twelve-year-old Lindy uses her skill at baseball to help her cope with a new school, scornful classmates, and complicated family problems.

Determined never to reveal her dark secret, which has been easy since her family is constantly on the move, Carly Chambers, while dealing with her abusive father, discovers that a mysterious stranger is watching her every move.