seattle (wash.)

Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.

When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests.

Sixteen-year-old Ruby, back at Tate Prep for her junior year, juggles therapy, running a school bake sale, coping with her performance artist mother, and a complicated love life that pits her friends against her romantic interests.

Fourteen-year-old Ben Friedman and his family flee Nazi Germany in 1941 hoping to find a better life in America; but when Pearl Harbor is attacked, his friendship with a young Japanese-American boy becomes strained.

Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, spend the summer with their uncle, helping at a wildlife rescue center named Jackie's Wild Seattle.

Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.

Twelve-year-old Albert Rosegarden meets his grandfather for the first time as they travel to Seattle, Washington, where Albert becomes a partner in his grandfather's elaborate scheme to "con a con man.".

Ten-year-old McKenna is ready to start fourth grade, but when she begins to fall behind in school, McKenna's teacher suggests she should get help from a tutor and with encouragement from Josie, a confident girl in a wheelchair, McKenna manages to regain confidence in her abilities.

Fourteen-year-old Gardner, trying to find some direction in his life, is shocked to discover that his unemployed father considers himself a failure.

For a tribute to his mother, a dead rock star, fifteen-year-old Grady returns to Seattle, where he faces his mixed feelings for his retarded younger half-brother Louie while pondering his own future.