family problems

Teenager Amanda Tart must learn to heal and to love again when her brother returns from jail after causing a drunk driving accident that changed their lives forever.

In modern-day London, sixteen-year-old Miss James "Mori" Moriarty is looking for an escape from her recent past and spiraling home life when she takes classmate Sherlock Holmes up on his challenge to solve a murder mystery.

After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself.

When Scarlet finds out she has a terminal heart condition, she requests to be able to attend high school to discover what it is like to have a normal life. As she adjusts to the norms of her new school, however, she realizes there is a shocking secret waiting to be unearthed, and learning more about it may prove more fatal than her heart.

Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.

Growing up in privileged Manhattan social circles, Caggie's life appears to be near perfect, but blaming herself for her younger sister's death and being called a hero for supposedly saving a classmate from suicide cause her to withdraw from friends and family until new kid Astor arrives at school, hiding a past at least as dark as her own.

In this twist on "The Nightingale," Little John, despite his own proverty and grief, reaches out to Gayle, an unhappy foster child living next-door who sings beautifully and hides a great secret.

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Gwen, confident her mother who ran away five years earlier is going to return soon and take her to live in France, decides not to make any friends, but her plans fall through when Clara, a new eighth-grader, insists on being friends, and together the two sort out their place with friends, school, and family.

Kylie Galen arrives at Shadow Falls Camp intent on learning the extent of her supernatural abilities, but predictions of doom, confusion about love, and other complications force her to put her plans on hold, and it soon becomes apparent someone from the dark side of the supernatural world has plans for her.