Voigt, Cynthia

Tish, a teenager who has been enduring abuse from her adoptive stepfather since she was a small child, finally decides she must do something to stop him.

Two unpopular girls try to break into the seventh grade clique system, even though they're not really sure they want to be popular at all.

A young African-American girl named Mina Smiths begins a journey of self-discovery when she learns that she will never be a classical dancer, and she develops an unrequited love for her church's summer minister.

A father's return home following World War I creates problems for his family, especially for twelve-year-old Clothilde, who struggles to accept his horrible disfigurement and opposes her mother's plan to sell Clothilde's land, a peninsula off the coast of Maine, to help pay the family's expenses.

Thirteen-year-old Dicey takes care of her three siblings over the course of a summer in New England and tries to find a new home for all of them after they are abandoned by their mother.

When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, twelve-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the mummy disappears.

Now in the eighth grade, best friends Mikey and Margalo try to figure out boys, crushes, and falling in love.

As a dedicated runner, a teenage boy has always managed to distance himself from other people until the experience of coaching one of his teammates on the track team gradually helps him see the value of giving and receiving.

A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and face the need to start building a new life as an amputee.

Thirteen-year-old Elske escapes rape and certain death at the hands of the leaders of her barbaric society and later becomes handmaiden to a rebellious noblewoman whose rightful throne together they reclaim.