Alex is unhappy living with her mother's parents in Indiana while her mother and alcoholic father remain in Texas, and her life becomes more complicated when she uses her computer to act on her suspicions about her grandparents' new neighbor, who Alex is certain is a criminal.
When fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Indiana to live with her grandparents, she struggles to cope with new friendships, her stern grandfather, and missing her mother.
Explores the discovery, study, and nature of gravity; and highlights the work of important scientists such as Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. Includes a timeline, a glossary, and a list of additional resources.
Twelve-year-old Jeri McKane and her classmates at Landmark School face a test of faith and friendship after her close friend and biology lab partner Abby winds up in the hospital following a mysterious explosion in the lab.
With her mom arrested as a thief and the police not looking any further for the real criminal, seventh-grader Tracy searches for the wily, dangerous thief alone.
When her mother suddenly returns home a year after having walked out on her family, thirteen-year-old Randi tries hard to conquer her own anger and feelings of being permanently scarred by the experience.
June finds sharing a house with her mother and her foster grandfather requires a difficult adjustment to his forgetfulness and his crabby remarks to her junior high school friends, but she also loves him as a family member.
