Fourteen-year-old Alex leaves his self-destructive, emotionally abusive mother to live with his grandparents in Rimrock, Oregon, and as he begins a new life in a small rural community, he battles his impulses to fight, steal, and lie for survival.

Product Description: In a bedtime book with an enormously satisfying and reassuring conclusion, increasingly unlikely--and hilarious--"what if's" gently poke fun at nighttime fears. "A fresh, funny reworking of the familiar 'nighttime anxieties overcome' theme."--Publishers Weekly. Full color.

A Chinese folktale about the future follows the discoveries of a young farmer's son as he sets off to find a new life and realizes that the future, like wind chimes, may twist and turn with every breeze.

A teenager who has always made fun of boy-conscious friends and who has been groomed to develop her 'full potential' finds herself becoming interested in boys and begins to question some of her former thinking.

Grandma teaches Tara how to listen to her own special song

Unwillingly taken for outings in the snow by their father, a boy and an ice elf meet by chance

Emotionally devastated by her parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old Carole is grateful for the friendship of the self-confident, imaginative, and popular Marty but finds herself in a terrible dilemma when Marty suggests a logical solution to their individual problems.Carole Palermo must overcome her own problems and feelings of isolation to help her flamboyant best friend, Marty Land--as well as herself--conquer self-destructive tendencies

When a foolish man believes he has become invisible from touching a magic leaf, he sneaks into the mayor's private garden to view the peonies.

Lizzie finds a fantasy world that helps her humdrum existence become a fulfilling life, but then something terrible happens that breaks the seemingly magic spell.