When Maeve's mother dies in a car crash, she is sent to live with her strict Chinese grandparents, where she struggles to maintain relationships with her family and friends and continue her dancing as she searches for her father.
Talented basketball player Ashlee Carson works hard to win a place in the nationals, but her strict mother wants her to focus on academics and Ashlee must ask her deadbeat father, a former professional basketball player, for support.
Twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, movie buff and aspiring screen writer, tries to resolve the mysteries surrounding her little brother's stuffed woolly mammoth and their father's five year absence.
Fifteen-year-old Phebe Knight, a lifelong ballerina who seems to have lost her focus on dance, decides to spend the summer in Switzerland with her father where she meets teenage chess champion Nikolai Kotalev and becomes involved in his obsessive quest to find the perfect teacher.
When his parents divorce and his mother moves with him to Belfast, Northern Ireland, twelve-year-old Eddie contends with the Reservoir Pups, a gang of children who rule his neighborhood.
An abridged retelling of the Margaret Sidney story in which a fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.
Eleven-year-old Jack suffers terrible headaches as he worries that his grandmother will soon die, his mother's boyfriend will move in--or leave--and especially that the school bully will get revenge for Jack's ill-timed joke at his expense.
