Rodowsky, Colby F

A physically handicapped girl uses her letters to a pen pal as an outlet for daydreams about her family and herself.

After Aunt Ernestus comes to visit, a family living in seclusion as caretakers for a cemetery find the time has come to rejoin the mainstream of society.

After his mother dies, seventeen-year-old Zach travels from Ohio to Baltimore, Maryland, to find the father he has never met, and chapters alternating between Zach and his half-sister describe how the members of the family adjust.

After graduating from a private high school in Baltimore, Annie comes to terms with the loss of her sister who had been murdered two years earlier.

After their parents divorce, eleven-year-old Elsie and her younger brother Tommy, who is mentally "different," must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding.

During the summer after seventh grade, Cassie sees her close-knit family life in Bethany Beach, Delaware, changing drastically as her older sister has a baby, reveals the true nature of her husband, and announces the breakup of her marriage.

As she starts seventh grade, twelve-year-old Hannah can no longer ignore her mother's increasingly erratic behavior caused by drinking.

Rosie and Skinny-bones scheme to get the attention of their neighbor, author Dawn O'Day. The girls have no luck until calamity strikes.

Jenny's apprehension about spending an afternoon with her two elderly great aunts is forgotten when one of the aunts takes her into the old attic.

Eight-year-old Ellie has to give up her life-long dream of getting a puppy after her parents agree to take in the dog that Great-aunt Margaret can no longer keep.