Kline, Lisa Williams

Twelve-year-old Gracie, feeling ignored by her parents, begins recording her thoughts in a journal which she soon discovers is magical and can grant her any wish, but before she can begin addressing major world problems, such as hunger and global warming, the notebook is taken from her, sending her and her crush on an adventure in search of it.

In the early years of the twentieth century, inspired by a free-thinking teacher and determined not to get married and stay trapped in her North Carolina fishing village, teenage Eleanor sets out to seek her chosen path of living as an independent woman.

While vacationing on a horse ranch in North Carolina, stepsisters Stephanie and Diana put aside their differences to help free a pair of caged wolves.

When Stephanie's father and Diana's mother go on a marriage retreat to deal with some big problems, Stephanie goes to cheerleading camp and Diana stays with her father, but when everyone returns, things seem worse than ever.

Details the power of floods, the ability to predict them and the efforts to recover in their aftermath.

Embarking on a Grand Cayman cruise with their extended family to celebrate Grammy Verra's birthday, stepsisters Stephanie and Diana discover a plot to smuggle a rare, endangered blue iguana.

While vacationing in a beach house surrounded by wild horses on North Carolina's Outer Banks, two very different stepsisters who like the same boy must band together to prove his innocence when he is accused of committing a crime against the horses.

Twelve-year-old best friends Carly and Arlene write about twin princesses during the final, cataclysmic days of Atlantis in a story that parallels the growing tensions the two friends are experiencing in their lives.

An old journal seems to be eighth-grader Gracie's ticket to the worlds of magic of which she has read, but her writings not only come true, they have unexpected consequences for her family and her best friend, would-be boyfriend Dylan.