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It happened on the day Amy's mother let her open the old Lost and Found Box when she was three. That was the day she was cursed (she believed) with the ability to locate lost items, people, and things. Amy moves from house to house because no one wants her until she meets Mr. Heckler, an old German man For the first time Amy finds a home and a chance for a new life. When she is given a list of things to find, Amy discovers she is really a pawn in a very dangerous game of hide and seek where the power-hungry will stop at nothing until they locate every secret.

Since he was eight, New York City high school junior Locke Vinetti has experienced bouts of overpowering anger, but now that he has friends who accept him and a true girlfriend, he hopes his anger (which he calls "the venom") will go away. But "the venom" has no intention of doing that and threatens to destroy all that he loves.

Collects thirteen original stories set during the Victorian era, including tales of steam-powered machines, family secrets, and love.

Frannie Cavanaugh has the gift of Sway or love and Luc Cain is sent by Hell to capture her soul by getting her to sin, and, although Frannie finds herself attracted to Luc, the angel Gabriel steps in to claim her soul for Heaven.

Over the course of several summers on the Atlantic coast, Chase struggles with his feelings for his best friend's sisters in the beach house next door while trying to get his own family through seemingly insurmountable problems.

Because their parents are archaeologists, Gabriella and Evangelia Betarrini have spent every summer among the hills of Italy. Now that they are teenagers the girls have become bored with dusty archaeological summers...until Gabi places her hand on top of a handprint in an ancient tomb. Suddenly she is physicaly in fourteenth century Italy and in the middle of a fierce battle between knights of two opposing forces.

Gabriella and Evangelia Betarrini are two normal American teenagers who time-travel to fourteenth century Italy where they've lived in castles, been in historic battles, and fallen in love with handsome knights. They've now returned with their mother to the present to save their father before his tragic death.

When Gabi and Lia return to medieval Italy, this time with their mother, they find a heroes' welcome from the people of Siena and enemies that wish them dead.

Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland until she forms a supportive friendship with the mysterious Paul.

When Ai Ling leaves her home and family to accompany Chen Yong on his quest to find his father, haunted by the ancient evil she thought she had banished to the underworld, she must use her growing supernatural powers to save Chen Yong from the curses that follow her.