When her entire fifth grade class disappears and then reappears before she can show anyone, Julia begins to think that something supernatural has taken over her school.
Diverse teens each react differently to a busy shift at a Phoenix, Arizona, Burger Haven on a hectic Saturday night that culminates in a show-down with two armed robbers.
A donkey finds it difficult to get any help from his friends as he diligently works to turn corn into tortillas; but they are all eager to eat when he is finished. Includes related activities, Spanish to English vocabulary exercises, and recipe for tortillas.
One minute Julia is sitting in her fifth-grade classroom and the next minute it has vanished around her. She runs for help but when she returns it is right where it is supposed to be. Who keeps making her classmates dissappear?.
Kevin's life of high school classes, crushes, basketball, and shuttling between his parents' homes falls apart when his father is arrested as a suspected serial killer, leading Kevin to a new understanding of his family and himself.
To avoid further encounters with a bully on the ski slope, Jarod and his younger sister cross over the ski area boundary, become stranded in a snow cave, and fearfully wait to be rescued.
Poems written in the voices of forty-seven people, including students, teachers, and other school staff, record the aftermath of a high school student's suicide and the preoccupations of teen life.
