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"The latest creature to emerge from Rob's closet is a cross between Chewbacca from "Star Wars" and "Harry Potter." Rob names him Potterwookiee (Hairy for short) and soon Rob finds himself treading water as he tries to figure out how to care for his mixed-up friend"--Provided by publisher.

"Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. But as Jude begins to fall for Emilio Vargas, she begins to wonder if her sisters were wrong"-- Provided by publisher.

Ivy and Jessica's play date must be postponed again and again until finally, a week after it was originally planned, they are able to get together.

Polly Winkler, left alone with her weird new step-siblings after her dad marries their mother, Veronica Kreep, and goes off on a honeymoon, is surprised to find she has something in common with them--the conviction that the baby-sitter has to go.

Having to contend with a suffering poet-father and an author-mother who uses her daughters's life as material for her popular books, fourteen-year-old Rebecca finds her life is further disrupted by the new boy next door and his enigmatic family.

Presents the life of a young Mayan Indian girl in a Guatemalan lakeside village, describing her family, her day-to-day life, and the history, political system, and customs of her country.

Six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves the home of his widowed father, in King County Vermont, to live with his grandparents on their farm, and comes of age in a rural town where fights at the one-room schoolhouse, family reunions, and adventures at the county fair shape him into a man.

Thirteen-year-old Frank Drum is living with his family in New Bremen, Minnesota, in the summer 1961, when tragedy strikes hard and frequently and Frank is thrust into an adult world of secrets, lies, and betrayal.

Mickey was different because of his incredible music and his talented father whom he vowed to find when he turned eighteen. Katie was different because she remained strong beyond her years when her father was nearly destroyed by her selfish mother. Johnny was different because he taught himself to fly on the winds of LAT 44 in order to escape his father's fall into darkness. All different, yet all had something in common.

Presents the Broadway script of "I Remember Mama," an adaptation of the Kathryn Forbes book, "Mama's Bank Account," in which Mama, a loving and capable Norwegian woman, guides her son and three daughters through childhood in early twentieth-century San Francisco.