secrecy

A wordless picture book in which several children discover a box hidden by a boy many years before, and they follow the directions on a map they find in the box all the way to Seahorse Pier.

In spite of their differences, Natalie Wallis and Annie Beckett become friends and decide to spend their summer spying on their neighbors.

Dubbed a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.

When she accidentally leaves her journal in Tiffany's apartment, Keena is afraid that Tiffany will reveal all of her secrets.

Olive has been told a big secret and she tells someone else until it eventually reaches the person who first talked to her.

Raised in Charleston, West Virginia, at the turn of the twentieth century by her grandfather and aunt on off-putting tales of family members she has never met, twelve-year-old Delana is shocked when, after Aunt Tilley dies, she learns the truth about her parents and some of her other relatives.

Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish lake monster named Lucky.

At fifteen, Nina Oberon lives in a totalitarian future society in which all girls are required to get a Governing Council-ordered "XVI" wrist tattoo on their sixteenth birthdays, announcing to the world that they are ready for sex, a claim Nina is not prepared to make, and when her mother is attacked right before Nina's birthday, she reveals a shocking truth with her dying breaths and Nina is left to care for her younger sister and try to discover who she really is, all the while staying one step ahead of her mother's killer.

Edie Burchill travels to Middlehurst Castle, the longtime residence of the Blythe spinsters, to seek out information about her mother, who was billeted there as a thirteen-year-old during World War II, and winds up finding out more than she imagined.

Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his "savvy"--the magical power unique to each member of their family--is to make things fall apart, which endangers his uncle Autry's ranch and reveals the family secret to future reporter Sarah.