Feeling scared and powerless when her father's anger escalates and her parents separate, twelve-year-old Anna spends the summer with her grandmother and decides to make a difference when she sees what seems to be a girl held against her will.
When her parents, much mocked for their work as "ghost hunters," are found murdered one winter night, it is up to Sylvie to learn the truth about them-both how they died, and the secrets of their lives.
Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
After Rennie buries his parents in their native Puerto Rico, he discovers that his birthmother is someone else, and that woman convinces him to move to Puerto Rico, a place he knows only through his parents' recollections.
While high school senior Jordan Adler pursues a one-sided relationship with a marginally interested college senior, she makes plans with her girlfriends to celebrate their graduation by spending a week at a Delaware rental house.
Offers advice to working parents on how to raise a happy, well-adjusted child; includes information on dealing with separation anxiety, helping children feel safe, completing work at home, simplifying meal preparation, and other related topics.
Examines the seven most ineffective and self-defeating behaviors that parents can display and offers suggestions on how to correct improper and destructive behavior in children.
