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Seventeen-year-old Amy Goodnight has long been the one who makes her family of witches seem somewhat normal to others, but while spending a summer with her sister caring for their aunt's farm, Amy becomes the center of weirdness when she becomes tied to a powerful ghost.

Tells the largely unknown story of African American high school football in Texas, drawing on interviews, newspaper stories, and memorabilia.

"Describes the career of congresswoman Barbara Jordan, including her work in the Texas State Senate, time in the US House of Representatives, and her work towards civil rights"--Publisher.

Upon moving to small-town Texas part-way into her junior year of high school, Serena sees parallels between the novel her class is studying, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and the two men in her life: boyfriend Lance, the quarterback, and outsider Cam.

Upon moving to small-town Texas part-way into her junior year of high school, Serena sees parallels between the novel her class is studying, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and the two men in her life: boyfriend Lance, the quarterback, and outsider Cam.

Seventh grader Quijana is ashamed when her Guatemalan cousins move to town and her father shows his disappointment in her cultural ignorance. Meanwhile, school grows more complicated when she meets two new friends, Zuri and Jayden, and realizes she might like Jayden as more than just a friend. At home, Quijana spends her nights Skyping with her ailing grandmother and her younger brother is withdrawing more all the time.

In 1986, siblings Elena and Joaquin Finney struggle with their manipulative, alcoholic mother and look for any way to escape Mariposa Island. Elena starts babysitting for a visiting family and sneaking off with a new boyfriend while Joaquin dreams of finding his estranged father in California. Meanwhile, their mother reflects on life in the 1950s as the daughter of wealthy white Cubans who sent her to the United States during the Cuban revolution where she experienced the turmoil of being an outcast immigrant in Texas. After Joaquin makes a startling discovery, the lies and secrets that have defined their family come to light.

After visiting her father on death row for twelve years, seventeen-year-old Riley is determined to find out if he is guilty or not before he is either executed or retried and, perhaps, released.

In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's "Odyssey," fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.

When thirteen-year-old Erica "Chia" Montenegro finds out her mother has breast cancer, she makes a promise to God to raise money for breast cancer awareness and discovers that when family and friends work together, miracles can happen.