When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.
Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania.
A young woman accidentally turns in a private story from her journal instead of an English assignment and becomes a best-selling author almost overnight.
In 1933, as Hitler becomes Chancellor, twelve-year-old Erich and his family, who are Jewish, find they need to make changes in their everyday lives as hatred of the Jews grows.
When Tommo, aged about fifteen years, runs away from an apprenticeship as a spellgrinder, he begs for sanctuary and is forced to attempt an impossible journey to leave his country, but help arrives in very unexpected forms.
Joining her mother on a business trip to Hawaii, Dylan plans to work on her self-esteem and getting her mother's attention, but instead finds herself pursuing a rich, attractive boy who only has eyes for a bad-girl tennis star.
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Alicia travels back to Spain for her summer vacation, and when she learns that the newest pop sensation is in town searching for someone to star in his new video, Alicia vows to get cast, but in order to land the job, she will have to beat out her beautiful cousins.
While stuck in Westchester over summer vacation, Kristen faces months of boredom with her friends all away, but when she lands a job babysitting Dune Baxter's younger sister, Ripple, Kristen discovers a chance for a summer romance.
