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When Francisco, gifted student and basketball player from Spanish Harlem, receives a scholarship to a distinguished boarding school, his fellow students view him as an outsider and assume the worst about him. In addition, his former friends no longer accept him as one of them, leaving Francisco in a difficult position and unsure how to proceed.

Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.

Twelve-year-old Henrietta Hornbuckle and her parents perform as clowns in a tiny, ramshackle traveling circus until a family tragedy jeopardizes Henrietta's whole offbeat world.

A graphic novel adaptation of the East African legend in which Marwe's carelessness ruins her village's crops, and fearful of what her family and neighbors will say, Marwe decides to run away to the Land of the Dead.

Told from their different points of view, sixteen-year-old Catherine and her adopted Mexican American brother, Henry, agonize over the loss of their uniquely close relationship when their prejudiced older brother and sister-in-law return after a family tragedy, determined to drive Henry away from the family's San Francisco home.

After a car accident seriously injures her best friend and kills her brother's girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Anna tries to cope with her guilt and grief, while learning some truths about her family and herself.

Thirteen-year-old Meg, who has always been envious of her older sister for her beauty and popularity, struggles with her emotions after Molly gets cancer.

Overcome with guilt over her brother's death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.

After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with his feelings of guilt, sorrow and loss, wins a scholarship to the local preparatory school and there encounters a vicious bully whose cruelty compounds the aftermath of the tragedy.

Profiles real-life cases that have been solved through forensic entomological evidence; and explores the career of a forensic entomologist.