Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.
As biracial Brendan Buckley enters middle school, he deals with issues with his African American father, a new girl at school, and his changing friendship with his best friend.
Fourteen-year-old Joel sees the first snow of the year as a time to make resolutions. He resolves to live a long life, see the sea, and see a naked lady. Joel's efforts to achieve his resolutions become complicated, especially when he tries to help his father return to his life as a sailor.
Now that Jake's parents have separated, he hopes he can still stay in a cabin with his dad by a lake. When they arrive at the cabin they discover it's shabby and the lake is very polluted. Then he meets a boy, Adrian, playing basketball really well but he has a difficult attitude and Jake's friendship with him disintegrates.
The dragon Basil, now grown mighty in strength, size, and courage, addresses and seeks the cause of a new series of crises that threaten the stability of Avalon, while his friend Merlin is distracted by problems with his son, Krystallus.
A biography of professional football quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning. Describes how they grew up as the sons of quarterback Archie Manning of the New Orleans Saints and rose from high school stars to professional triumph. Includes photos and information on the brothers' best games and career statistics.
After his mother's death, sixteen-year-old Ben Larsson and his long-absent father move to England in search of a new start, but a series of unexplained events leads Ben to a meeting with Wyliff, a Green Man living in the nearby woods who needs Ben to help him settle an escalating dispute in fairy world.