Rivers, Karen

Eleven-year-old Kammie reflects on her life as she fights claustrophobia while waiting to be rescued from a well she fell into while trying to impress some mean girls.

Several years after Cassie and Holden had witnessed killer whales kill a female trainer who fell into their pool, they continue to struggle with the emotional effects of the incident.

As Tink Aaron-Martin writes an encyclopedia of her life, she also tells the story of the summer leading into her eighth-grade year.

Xenos, a teenage boy with a white mother and African-American father he never knew, suddenly gains the ability to fly, with no explanation why.

Sixteen-year-old Haley Andromeda Harmony resumes her laptop diary in January of "the greatest year of my life," still reeling from having a boyfriend and discovering that her mother is a nun.

Presents the fictional diary of sixteen-year-old Haley in which she records the disasters of her last year of high school, discussing problems with boys, friends, family members, and an Ouija-conjured spirit.

Ten-year-old Carly loves the feeling she gets from diving, but her enjoyment in the sport is curtailed when her friend Montana is seriously injured while diving in the lake at the summer cabin owned by Carly's family.

After the divorce of his parents, Dex Pratt moves in with his father, who is now wheelchair-bound after failing to commit suicide. When Dex's father, once a lawyer who defended marijuana growers, begins growing the drugs as well, Dex starts smoking it and enters a surreal world where he loses touch with what is reality and what is imagined.