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Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.

In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strang

In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown b

Mike Hammer awakens from a coma to find that he is at the center of a search for $89 billion in missing mob money.

During a lively discussion of "The Awakening" at Amanda's book club meeting, a member, Helen Coulter, vigorously denounces the main character's suicide as cowardly.

Tom the janitor has been accused of murdering the head biologist at New York City's Museum of Natural History. But teenaged sleuths P.C.

P.C. and Mackenzie's junior class trip ends in disaster when practically all the kids witness classmate Timmy Warner plunge to his death over a 300-foot waterfall.

In 1921 Tulsa, a white woman and a black man get on an elevator. The woman screams and suddenly the man is on the streets--barely ahead of a lynch mob gathering behind him.

In mid 19th-century New Orleans, Marie Laveau was the notorious queen of voodoo -- worshiped and feared by blacks and whites alike.

Medical doctor Marie Levant--descendant of the legendary Voodoo Queen Mari Laveau--is tired of seeing blood-drained corpses arrive at the hospital each night, and tired of being haunted by their gh

After Molly Wizenberg's father died, she traveled to Paris and--amidst its culinary delights--realized her heart was in the kitchen.

As wealthy Lord Everingham conducts an official investigation of a bloody political confrontation, his work is criticized in scathing publications written by a rogue calling himself Captain Spindle

When he is seven, Edgar Mint is run over by a mailman. Three months later, the half-Apache and mostly orphaned boy miraculously wakes from a coma.

Edward and his family have escaped the heat and violence of inner-city Philadelphia every summer for the last 5 years.

Off the beaten path, concealed behind the weather-worn clapboard walls of decaying farm houses, desperate folk struggle and strive. These are their stories.