Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner strength she did not know she had.
While awaiting DNA test results that could determine the identity of her biological father, high-school senior Kendall Moorehead and her friends use their psychic abilities against an evil, Civil War-era doll said to have been made by a voodoo priestess.
Nancy's interest in butterflies distracts her from lessons in waddling, flying, and swimming, but she still has something to teach her fellow goslings, and perhaps even their teacher.
After they are successful with their magazine and secure funding for their school, Paulina finds herself left alone to juggle the responsibilities of the magazine while the other girls leave to pursue their own interests.
From a cheerleader's breakup to dark family secrets, a collection of short stories provides engaging tales about joys, dramas, and tribulations young people endure as they come of age in the world today.
Gertie the hen is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true.
