When Miss Levy asks the students to list their three top talents, ten-year-old Indie struggles to name just one.

Evie feels unsettled and sad after her parents divorce, her father remarries and takes the family dog, and his new wife becomes pregnant, but a cooking class and helping the elderly lady next door with her cat give Evie a way to cope with the changes in her life. Includes recipes.

Over the summer, five middle school girls form a club based on the fact that they all feel neglected and misunderstood by their blended families.

While doing roller skating tricks, Karen falls and breaks her wrist--now summer won't be much fun.

Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.

"The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light"--

In this retelling of Cinderella, Stella would rather be an astronaut and go to space than meet a prince and become a princess.

"When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Chicago for their parents' concert, they uncover another plot by the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Windy City"--

Grounded for the summer by her sometimes-evil stepmother, seventeen-year-old vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke gets permission to join a Quidditch team, where she makes new, if nerdy, friends.

Eleven-year-old Max Carmody has wanted to be a stand-up comedian since he was five, so when a contest is held to find the "world's funniest kid," he goes through all kinds of craziness to win.