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What does it take to stand up for what's right?It's 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth.

Can the strength accumulated over a lifetime of losses be enough to cope with a daughter's death?What was it like growing up as a smart girl in a world of 1970s suburban conformity?

There's nothing lucky about your family falling apart. Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has.

When you change your name, do you change who you are?Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father.

Jason's dad falls asleep everywhere … except in his own bed.

When Angela's father gets lost at the airport, she looks for him everywhere, even inside an airplane.

Julie thinks her new neighbors must be very scary because all the stuff being moved into their house is enormous. Then she meets David and finds out that he's just a normal, regular boy.

Andrew has decided he never needs to go pee ever again, but his parents aren't too sure. Only one minute into the drive to his grandparents' house, Andrew changes his mind.

"Last stop! Everybody out!" Jonathan is trying not to make a mess, but someone has put a subway station in his apartment. So Jonathan goes to City Hall to fix the computer.

Mortimer will not be quiet and go to sleep. Not for his mother, or his father, or his seventeen sisters and brothers, not even for the police.

When Jule Ann goes outside in her brand-new clothes, a mud puddle jumps on her and gets her completely dirty. The mud gets in her ears, eyes, and even her mouth.

What in the world is Robin going to do with the baby she finds in her sandbox? 'Murmel, murmel, murmel,' is all Robin hears coming from a hole in her sandbox.

Another laugh-out-loud book from the author of The Paper Bag Princess!

Ben wants to take something really neat to school for show and tell. What could be neater than his new baby sister? But his sister doesn't want to co-operate. She cries in his backpack.

'Something good' is exactly what Tyya, Andrew and Julie want to put into their shopping cart. Tyya's dad won't buy anything good at the store—no ice cream, no candy, no cookies.