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Secret keeper

In 1974 when her father leaves New Delhi, India, to seek a job in New York, Ashi, a tomboy at the advanced age of sixteen, feels thwarted in the home of her extended family in Calcutta where she, her mother, and sister must stay, and when her father dies before he can send for them, they must remain with their relatives and observe the old-fashioned traditions that Ashi hates.

The false princess

For sixteen years, Nalia has been raised as the princess of Thorvaldor, but one day she learns that her real name is Sinda and that she is part of a complicated plot that would change the future of her country forever.

Dead girl dancing

Seventeen-year-old Amber Borden, who can step into other people's lives, finds herself in her boyfriend's sister Sharayah's college-age body and tries to figure out how to solve her drinking problem and other issues while struggling with the tricky aspect of kissing her boyfriend.

Dead girl in love

Temp Lifer Amber's third assignment takes her into the body of her best friend, Alyce, who is involved in some secret project involving cemeteries; while investigating, Amber encounters Dark Lifer Gabe, who wants to make a deal with her.

Dead girl walking

When Amber, a smart, middle-class, high school student, is hit by a truck, she meets her deceased grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrong turn and awakens in the body of a wealthy, beautiful, popular classmate with serious problems.

Solstice

Eighteen-year-old Piper lives with her controlling mother amid a Global Heating Crisis, but when she gets her first taste of freedom she discovers a universe of gods and monsters where her true identity, kept secret from her birth, could make all the difference in the world.
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Three cheers for Tacky

Tacky the penguin adds his own unique touch to his team's routine at the Penguin Cheering Contest, with surprising results.
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The bar code rebellion

The Bar Code Tattoo #2
2012
Kayla's life and her freedom are threatened when she refuses to get the bar code tattoo.

Seraphina

Seraphina #1
2012
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.

What Janie Found

2001
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.

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