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Nine-year-old Terrel Liu tries to sabotage her father's new relationship with the aunt of her ballet class nemesis.

When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.

Fifth grade is tumultuous for Alice as she tries to help others through the many changes occurring at home and in school, including learning about sex when Rosalind gets her period and shares a book that explains what is happening.

Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.

Whether the prize is a soccer trophy or the esteem of Danville's elite, the McGinn family believes in winning, but while striving to prove he can be best at something, sixth-grader Mack inadvertently demonstrates to his parents and older brother what really matters most.

"Ian Taylor lives a secret life. At school, he's a varsity football player, dating one of the hottest cheerleaders on campus. At home, he's his divorced mother's right hand, helping her manage his autistic younger brother, Davey. To Ian, Davey is a freak. And no one must ever know he exists. But when Davey begins attending Ian's high school, everything changes..."--Back cover.

Bart Simpson goes green, saves Nelson from going to jail, plays big brother to Maggie and Lisa, and becomes a threat to national security when he and Milhouse build a rocket.

When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she is embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.

During fall semester of her junior year of high school, Alice decides to change her good girl image, while major remodeling begins at home and some important relationships begin to change.

In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.