After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien.
A boy warns his new neighbors of the trouble that comes with building a monster, including having to move to a different town in hopes of escaping his creation.
After living like a gypsy in Australia all of his life, Pete tries to adjust to living in a permanent place--his father's New Zealand hometown, where Pete must pass a test to belong to his cousins' exclusive gang.
Doreen Bussey uses a black notebook to doodle her experiences as her family moves, which means that she must attend a new school where she has no friends and does not seem to fit in. Moving is tough. But the hardest thing of all about the move that Doreen "Dodo" Bussey's family is making is that she suspects it might be because of her. On the drive to their new home, her mother gives Dodo a blank notebook, which she uses to chronicle the move.
Benny hates his new life in Tunisia; none of the kids play his favorite sport, and he feels like he just doesn't fit in, until he is befriended by Omar, a wild boy living on his talent for buying, selling, and fixing things.
When eleven-year-old Rick and his mother move from San Diego to Tucson he is not too happy about the change, but when they get a fire-breathing, time-traveling dragon to replace their broken furnace, his new life starts to get more interesting.
While working on a writing assignment at his new school, Richard learns the meaning of various proverbs and how to express his feelings about his parents' divorce.
Bambi, Buffie, and Brick, three totally cool siblings from Los Angeles, move with their parents to Hickory Fork, a small town terrorized by a high school gang.
