Leavitt, Caroline

After her sister Lucy runs away with a teacher, Charlotte and their guardian Iris do all they can to try and find her, never realizing the nightmare Lucy's life has become and how much her disappearance will affect their lives.

In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood{8212}in the throes of Cold War paranoia{8212}seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son. Years later, when Lewis and Rose reunite to untangle the final pieces of the tragic puzzle, they must decide: Should you tell the truth even if it hurts those you love, or should some secrets remain buried?.

At sixteen, Sara is pregnant, alone, and desperate, so she arranges an open adoption with George and Eva, an older couple longing for a child, but after the baby is born, Sara's unmistakable link with the child forces Eva to make a drastic decision with devastating consequences.

Contains ideas and projects designed to help youngsters uncover stories and facts about their ancestors, and organize their family histories.

A mystery in which Wishbone, the television dog, works with his friends Joe Talbot, Samantha Kepler, and David Barnes to determine who is haunting their clubhouse.

Uses projects and ideas for research to show children how to trace their families' histories.

Wishbone and his friends try to find out what is causing the mysterious happenings in the old 1930s clubhouse Joe won in a raffle.