Baratz-Logsted, Lauren

On New Year's Eve, the octuplets Huit--Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia--discover that their parents are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what happened to their parents.

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 he is away.

Modern-day teen Emily March turns to Louisa May Alcott's famous book for a school assignment and finds herself mysteriously transported to the world of "Little Women," where she undergoes surprising changes.

In Victorian London, thirteen-year-old Lucy's comfortable world with her loving parents begins slowly to unravel the day that a bedraggled woman who looks exactly like her mother appears at their door.

High school senior Angel Hansen loses her virginity after drinking at a party, becomes pregnant, and struggles over the decision of whether to have the baby as its father pressures her to have an abortion.

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.

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.

Twelve-year-old Lacey Underhill has always hated her over-developed chest, which has made her the target of school bullies and jealous friends, but when an older boy starts showing interest in her, Lacey decides there are some benefits to looking older.

In this contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a girl whose mother has recently died form a connection when they meet on their first day as new students.

Ren, forced to move from New York to the suburbs of Connecticut with her grief-stricken dad after her mother is killed in a freak accident, cannot seem to fit in at her new school--thanks primarily to popular snob Farrin, but when she finds out Farrin is involved in an online relationship with an older man, she discovers friends she never knew she had.