Napoli, Donna Jo

Bobby the bonobo is not accepted by the chimps at the zoo where they all live, but after he has an afternoon adventure in the city and gets a mohawk hair cut, the chimps change their minds about him.

Adam consults his talking freckles again after the new girl in middle school joins the boys soccer team.

In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.

When her pet rabbit's newborn babies die, and her doctor tells her that she may have scoliosis, and her aunt is diagnosed with cancer, ten-year-old Laurel feels constantly reminded of the mortality of all living things.

When sixteen-year-old Sep develops a disease that causes white blotches to appear on her skin, she rushes into a relationship with a boy she has always thought of as just a friend.

Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.

In this version of the traditional tale of the young boy who climbs a beanstalk, Jack searches for his father, falls in love with Flora, and learns the value of real treasure.

Rocky the dog has a difficult life when he first moves into a house with five cats.

When she realizes that her friend Jimmy can change from frog to human and back again with aid of a magic ring, Gracie the frog tries to find a way to persuade him to remain a frog permanently.

When ten-year-old Adam discovers that his freckles can see and talk, he plans to use this secret to get onto the school soccer team.