prisoners' families

Cleveland Rosebud Potts yearns to leave Sassafras, Florida for a rich and cultured life at The American School of Paris, but problems with family, friends, and finances stand in her way.

While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.

Ronan, fifteen, the youngest and lowliest recruit to Ireland's secret Garda, faces untold danger from the wee people while trying to prove his imprisoned parents were framed.

Sydney is determined to sabotage the elitist speech team at her new school until she starts falling for the team's star member and sees she has a chance of shedding her "loser" status.

A girl named Cleveland Rosebud Potts has created her Paris Project List, and she thinks that if she can tick off all six items, she will finally escape her terrible small town of Sassafras, Florida, by earning a place at the high-culture and rich American School of Paris. Of course, nothing ever goes according to plan, and before the end Cleveland will have to learn how to forgive her family, be a friend, and learn to grow and prosper where she is.

"On her twelfth birthday, Sage wishes on a magical candle foran end to the family curse she believes caused many problems, including sending her father to prison"--Provided by publisher.

At his fourth school in four years, Moses Vargas explodes when it is revealed that his father is in prison, but in a support group for teens with absentee fathers, he begins finding better ways to cope.

Ronan Boyle is the youngest and lowest recruit into the secret garda, an Irish police force that tries to stem and stop the misdeeds of unnumbered magical creatures. Ronan is small, has terrible eyesight, suffers social awkwardness, and has a truly absurd number of allergies--nevertheless Ronan knows he is the only one who can prove his parents were innocent and unjustly imprisoned. To do that, he must go to the land of the leprechauns.

Kylene, seventeen, determined to prove her FBI agent father innocent of murder, finds unexpected allies after returning to the town where she was involved in a scandal two years before.