Chad, hoping to work out his frustrations and his anger by taking a summer job as a dunk tank Bozo, comes to a better understanding of himself and the uses of humor as he undergoes training in the fine art of insults.
Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey chronicles his life, focusing on how his homosexuality impacted every aspect of his life and explaining why he chose to come out in August 2004.
Shayleen Mills finds herself struggling for survival when her family vacation at the seaside resort of Wildwood, New Jersey, is interrupted by the arrival of hostile, glowing jellyfish.
After years of playing nothing but soccer in Hudson City, New Jersey, Manny has to work very hard to play on the middle school football team, using determination, speed, and smarts to make up for being small and inexperienced.
Seventeen-year-old Simon lies in a coma, finding his space and time overlapping with that of a man who was lynched over 200 years ago, while a member of the cheating ring he has been helping wonders if their actions have caused the plagues assaulting their New Jersey town.
Back in Grover's Corners, N.J., for the summer, Henry and his partner Midge establish a baby sitting service and find a disappearing child and a peacock among their charges.
Thirteen-year-old Robert "Qwerty" Stevens uses the time machine he finds in his back yard to visit Thomas Edison's workshop in 1879, and there helps develop the electric light bulb, but then needs his sister's help to return to his own time.
