Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Adam, a high school senior who works as an aide to the school's psychologist, is reunited with Julian, a foster brother he hasn't seen in five years. As the boys grow close once again, Adam realizes Julian is hiding a dangerous secret, and when Adam tries to help Julian, he puts them both at risk.
Life has been difficult for Ben Coffin and he doesn't make friends easily, so he spends most of his time with his favorite characters from science fiction books. One day he rescues a scruffy dog on the way home from the library. The dog, who he names Flip, then leads Ben to befriend Halley, a girl who dresses in crazy colors. Ben nicknames her "Rainbow Girl," and together Ben and Halley decide to write a novel. In doing so, Ben's life unravels. If he wants to keep his new friend, he will have to figure out what friendship really means.
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Follows a young boy named Nobody Owens as he is raised in a graveyard by a group of ghosts and avoids leaving the graveyard for fear that he will be killed by the man who has already murdered his family.
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the death of her beloved cat, Mango.
