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Ages 8 to 11 years. Poppy is visiting her grandmother.

When she is confined to a nursing home after a series of debilitating strokes, Ruth Tyler struggles to accept the loss of her independence.

Jeremy is shocked to find that the theatre mannequins of elderly women his mother has put together are not what they seem.

Alex is seventeen years old and she feels her life has come to an end.

Poppy, the zany character from A Monster in My Cereal, A Ghost in My Mirror, and Witch’s Brew, is back. But this time, Poppy is miserable.

Ryan finds his freedom in the water, where he is not bound by gravity and his wheelchair.

A unique and much-needed collection, The Smart Princess takes readers inside the fantasies, dreams and disappointments of young people who are Deaf.

Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape.

It's 1977, and Mary-Eve Hamilton (Mary for the Mother of God, Eve for the mother of mankind) is plodding through her final year at Eleusis High School.

Based on the true story of two sisters sheltered from the Nazis by a group of Catholic nuns during World War II.

Her name is Sadie, but she might as well be called Fostergirl. Grouphomegirl. That’s how everyone thinks of her. Sadie doesn’t care. In fact, she’d be happier if they didn’t think of her at all.

Thirteen-year-old Rabia, along with her mother and younger brother, flee Afghanistan and the brutal Taliban for Pakistan.

Tory has been bumped from foster home to foster home for most of her nine years.

Poppy isn't very pleased. Her father is a pain. And the worst of it is that she is stuck with him for a whole weekend while her mother and brother are away.

My name is Lee Mets (honest), and this is my book I’m part of the writing club, which is fantastic, since what I want to be most is a writer.