Galante, Cecilia

An angry thirteen-year-old girl and her hated English teacher spend a summer school class together, learning surprising things about each other.

Wren Baker is an anxious twelve-year-old, so when her mother goes into a hospital for depression, and she and her younger brother, who has Asperger's syndrome, go to live with her aunt and her cousin, Silver, who have just recently moved to Pennsylvania, her stress level soars - especially since Silver is a fearless child who conceives a plan to climb Creeper Mountain and interview "Witch Weatherly" for the class history project.

Since her mother's suicide, high school junior Marin has been able to see others' pain as colors and shapes, but what she sees in the head of classmate Cassie, who forced her to participate in a weird conjoining rite, is much more frightening and deadly.

"Willa Bean travels down to Earth for the first time with her father on a cupid assignment, where she finds a boy being bullied who needs her help"--Provided by publisher.

Willa Bean thinks that every flying friend should be one of a kind, like her owl, Snooze, and is upset when a new girl arrives at the Cupid Academy with a much larger owl, Mr. Wingston.

Agnes and Honey are two friends born into Mount Blessing, a religious commune with strict rules and closely guarded secrets. Agnes wants nothing less than to become a saint, but Honey longs to get as far away from the commune as possible and live a normal life. When Agnes' grandmother, Nana Pete, takes the girls away from Mount Blessing, the commune's lies are revealed and the girls realize that they must make their own future.

After graduating from high school, class valedictorian Julia travels to Poultney, Vermont, to visit her older sister, and while she is there she learns about long-held family secrets that have shaped her into the person she has become.

An angry thirteen-year-old girl and her hated English teacher spend a summer school class together, learning surprising things about each other.

Eleven-year-old Lily has trouble leaving her best friend behind and moving to the city when her mother changes jobs, but she makes some very unlikely friends that soon become like family members.

Eleven-year-old Lily has trouble leaving her best friend behind and moving to the city when her mother changes jobs, but she makes some very unlikely friends that soon become like family members.