When they agree to a summertime house swap with an unknown family in Paris, the four members of the Hitchcock family inadvertently get mixed up in a ring of international espionage.
Now permanently settled with Aunt Fiona, who has adopted him and his siblings, thirteen-year-old William gets the chance to play Puck in a professional production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream.".
Offers adolescent and teenage boys guidance to help them cope with the challenges of family dynamics and learn how to effectively communicate with their parents, siblings, and other family members.
Shares the true-to-life stories of teen and preteen girls who are struggling to get along and find their place in their unique families, each with comments and advice from psychologist Dr. Vicki Panaccione.
Sixteen-year-old Sami and her romance-writer mother spend a month in Scotland fixing up an old farm as a tourist destination, while Sami and her new friend Fiona hunt for the resident ghost and Sami helps resolve a centuries-old feud.
Expands on the folk song to tell of seventeen-year-old Clementine, whose dream of being a doctor is complicated by her drunken, gambling father, the lawlessness of 1866 Idaho Territory, and the affections of handsome Boone Reno.
Ten-year-old Mary Mae, living with her parents in fossil-rich southern Ohio, tries to reconcile, despite her mother's strong disapproval, her family's Creationist beliefs with the prehistoric fossils she studies in school.
Connor loves animals, but his parents rules have always prevented him from having a pet, so when the local animal shelter becomes overcrowded and all the members of Connor's animal lovers club agree to take in an animal, Connor finds a way to bend the rules.
Fourteen-year-old Latonya Dennison wants nothing more than to live with her friend Rudy Morris's family, but because Latonya is African-American and Rudy's family is white, the foster care system refuse to make the placement, leaving Latonya and Rudy to take matters into their own hands.
