After a stack of Harry Potter books kill Ren's mother, she finds herself trapped in a Connecticut suburb with her father who grieves too much to live in New York. But when a new friend at school confides to Ren that she is communicating online with an older man, Ren comes up with a plan to stop it.
Denied an education because of both her gender and background, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth cuts her hair and alters suits belonging to Will, her wealthy patron's grandnephew, to take his place at school while Will pursues a military career in nineteenth-century England.
The Huit octuplets discover Marcia's special power--the ability to see through things--which helps when their evil neighbor calls Social Services to report that they are living alone because their parents have not returned from wherever they disappeared to.
Rebecca is known as the toughest of the Eights, constantly teasing the others about not dealing with trouble well, and she will have to prove herself when it is her turn to face her power.
Lucius, whose arms were blown off in an explosion, forms a relationship with Aurora, a young girl whose mother recently died, in hopes that she will be able to help free him from the stigma of being different.
In 1969, as her own family is falling apart, ten-year-old Mamie finds comfort in conducting a one-sided correspondence with the least famous astronaut heading toward the moon on Apollo 11.
Rebecca is known as the toughest of the Eights, constantly teasing the others about not dealing with trouble well, and she will have to prove herself when it is her turn to face her power.
April Fools' Day is long and hard for the third-grade Huit octuplets, but it is nothing compared to the challenges of Tax Day, through which Jackie discovers her special power and gift and learns more about their parents' mysterious disappearance.
