family

The last thing twelve-year-old Christopher "Kip" Campbell wants is to take over the funeral business that has been in his family for generations, but he is the only Campbell heir and seems to have a calling to help the dead and their survivors in a most unusual way.

Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along.

Sixteen-year-old Daphne Van Helsing is tired of the family business and wishes for a life aside from slaying vampires, but when the Van Helsings are called to a coastal town in Maine they face a new race of vampires and Daphne's first potential boyfriend, Tyler Harker, winds up being the son of a rival slayer family.

Fifteen-year-old Kit spends the summer feeding stray cats and meets Jess, an artistic punk girl who creates an avatar called Katman, in honor of Kit's quiet heroism.

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Solomon, having been in an altercation with a driver who threw garbage at her, decides to change her life and become a crusader for the environment, but finds her new passion met by resistance from her family and friends and taking a dark turn.

Shira, a fifteen-year-old who lives with her grandmother and widowed father in a Miami hotel, picks up shoplifting as a new hobby and is caught by a streetwise boy from Spain who becomes her friend, ally, and possibly more as she wrestles with the hardships of growing up.

In Uganda in 1972, fifteen-year-old Sabine and her family, wealthy citizens of Indian descent, try to preserve their normal life during the ninety days allowed by President Idi Amin for all foreign Indians to leave the country, while soldiers and others terrorize them and people disappear.

Describes the excitement of waiting for a new baby to arrive and following its growth.

Martha the dog recounts her early days as a canine criminal after having been adopted by a thief and her partner before being captured by the police and brought to a shelter, where she ultimately met Helen.

Now that she is in fourth grade and is not supposed to be friends with boys anymore, Nadie must hide her friendship with Nick, her neighbor and lifelong best friend, but when a new girl arrives who believes that some rules need to be broken, Nadie learns a lot from her.