In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.
Eleven-year-old Arlie is troubled by the sudden arrival of a new girl in school with an uncanny resemblance to Arlie's mother, a woman who rarely praises her.
After her brother dies and her parents get a divorce, twelve-year-old Katahdin sets out to hike the whole Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine on her own.
Jenny and her mother hunt a killer while fearing for their own safety, after the reading of their millionaire cousin's will leads to the murder of another cousin.
After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.
While Nora and her younger sister Patsy deal with their father's plans to remarry and their competition over a new boy at school, Nora alone senses the presence of her mother who died three years before.
Teen superstar Grace Kincaid telephones her mother that she wants out of the multi-million dollar endorsements and celebrity, and soon she finds herself in hiding with a new name and a new identity.
