Thirteen-year-old Liza begins to feel overwhelmed, and as she tries to find a useful outlet for her frustration as grief, she finds herself blocked at every turn by the school's new principal.
"After moving into their new home, a keeling-over farmhouse in the country, nine-year-old Cyrus and his brother, Rudy, have trouble adjusting to all the changes. Nothing about the coastal countryside feels warm or familiar. But when Cyrus is stranded one evening by the tide, he finds help from an unlikely source"--Provided by publisher.
When the new boy in Evelyn's fifth-grade class tells everyone his name is Queen, Evelyn doesn't know how the class will react. She isn't even sure how she will react. Yet Queen is the most interesting person Evelyn has ever met.
When ten-year-old Cyrus sees a 'For Sale' sign plunged into his front lawn, it's a complete and utter disaster. Usually, his younger brother, Rudy, is the scaredy-cat, but for the first time in his life, Cyrus is terrified.
Living in an old car with her brother and mother after her father leaves to find work, Angie struggles to cope with the difficulties of life as a homeless person until she discovers slam poetry as a vehicle for expressing herself.
