Laurel-leaf books

Lucy is on vacation in Beverly Hills visiting her father, a TV producer. She is allowed to act as a stunt rider in his series, but someone's pulling some dangerous stunts on the set and the whole cast is in danger. Lucy could be the next victim.

Contains seventeen stories portraying the varied experiences of adolescence.

Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.

When the people of Rovenia vote to restore their monarchy, sixteen-year-old Alex Varenhoff must suddenly leave his native England to become prince of a land he knows only from his grandfather's stories.

Fourteen-year-old Kendall, half Anglo and half Acoma Indian, travels through time to sixteenth-century Acoma, New Mexico, where, in the midst of the invasion of Spanish conquistadors, he joins his Acoma ancestors to play his destined role as the last member of the Snake Clan.

The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents.

Fourteen short stories featuring characters and backgrounds from "Anne of Green Gables" and other books written by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.

The murder of a student at an all-boys Catholic school in the border city of El Paso, Texas, throws the lives of a diverse group of friends into chaos.

Fourteen-year-old April and her brother realize there are some definite perks to living on the same street as a known Mafia member, but when their own lives are put in danger, they realize the risks outweigh the benefits.