Couloumbis, Audrey

Three teenaged cousins worry about their uncle who is missing in Vietnam, their brothers--the one who was drafted and the two who are dodging the draft, and the effects of their absence on the four generations gathered at the family farm in the summer of 1965.

After his parents divorce, high school junior Vinnie Gold moves to Long Island with his mother and new stepfather and must negotiate a secret crush and a rather complicated connection with the popular girl next door.

When ten-year-old Lexie goes with her father to the beach for a week, she is surprised to find that he has invited his girlfriend and her two sons to join them for the entire week.

What were once just boys' games become matters of life and death as Petros and his older brother Zola each wonder if they can make a difference in a Nazi-occupied Greece.

After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read.

Ten-year-old Jake forms an unexpected bond with his estranged grandfather after his mother's injury puts the pair together in time for the Christmas holiday.

Things don't feel right here. I want to open my eyes in the morning to see my very own wallpaper. I want Mom to read to us for an hour before bedtime. But instead I hear Aunt Patty's bossy voice rousing Uncle Hob out of bed. My sad feelings harden into mad feelings.