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Kou, the son of a yakuza leader, becomes a rival with Rakuto for Sachie's affections, and Kou's father suggests that Sachie return to Osaka.

Notori and Natsume investigate if a retired exorcist's yokai servants are trying to kill their master to release themselves from their contract.

"Natsume meets a yokai who is trying to let go of his feelings for a human for both their sakes. But Natsume isn't sure that kind of sacrifice is necessary"--Back cover.

Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.

While he visits his grandfather in the hospital, Azuma fears he will be alone in the world and meets Yusuki, a girl whose grandmother is in the same hospital; and meanwhile, Sachie meets her estranged grandfather, who is the head of a yakuza gang.

Rakuto, one of the most popular guys at school and a member of a yakuza gang, seems headed for the college of his choice until incidents from his past begin to surface.

"It's winter in the forest by Granny Sylvie's house. The trees are bare. The pond is frozen hard. The air is quiet and still. Is anything alive? Discover the wonder of hibernation and learn how different animals tuck themselves away and snuggle down for a winter sleep"--Back cover.

After her parent's divorce, Lizzy and her mother move to upstate New York to live with Lizzy's grandparents, and Lizzy tries to adjust not only to a new city, but to the physical and emotional changes she is experiencing.

Corey Fletcher has the ability to travel into the past--so long as he has a metal artifact from a specific point in time, then he can go to that specific point. When, however, he goes into the past and accidentally saves a life, Corey realizes he is something more than a time traveler: he is a "Throwback," someone with the ability to alter life and the whole timeline. He decides to use this ability to go back to September 11, 2001, and stop his grandmother from dying in the terrorist attack of that day, but things go wrong. He ends up in New York City of 1917, lost and alone.

"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Roonie struggles to deal with her grandmother's declining health"--Publisher.