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Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley feels very different from her bubbly parents and thinks only her best friend understands her, but a visit from Emma-Rose's great-aunt from Romania leads her to believe she could be a vampire.

Discusses the importance of sportsmanship in athletics, and covers how to keep perspective, what it means to win, when to begin specializing, how to express enthusiasm, parent-coach relationships, rules and regulations, and other aspects of etiquette within various sports.

During his sophomore year, high school senior David Crandall's mother was murdered; and now, after learning about a family embezzlement secret and witnessing his father burying a shot gun, he starts to suspect his dad was the murderer.

Twelve-year-old Ellie's boring summer becomes exciting when she develops a crush on her new next-door neighbor, an older boy with a troubled past, whom her parents have forbidden her to see.

Not long after learning that he was adopted, eleven-year-old Peter is hit by a car and then given several chances to alter events that could lead to his death.

Twelve-year-old Steven and his younger brother Benjy make a desperate attempt to force their extremely busy parents to spend more time together with them.

During her summer at Camp Nashaquitsa, eleven-year-old Abby tries to reinvent herself, while worrying about her mother, missing her dead father, and getting to know her equally self-conscious bunkmates.

Bernadette, having wished on the eve of her fortieth birthday to be young again, wakes up the next morning as a twelve-year-old, and enrolls in her son Patrick's class in hopes of somehow enlisting his help in returning to her old self.

Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.

Rose decides to dress up as the Queen of France one morning, and, as she imagines herself as real royalty, goes off in search of Rose's mother.