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Summer 1958.

Even though twelve-year-old Alexis was born in Hawaii, she won't surf or swim with her friends--not since the ocean and its hidden creatures swept her out to sea.

After Benjamin Reed's dad receives a heartbreaking ALS diagnosis--connected to all his years in football--Ben's mom becomes more determined than ever to get Ben to quit.

Eliza Quan is the perfect candidate for editor in chief of her school paper. That is, until ex-jock Len DiMartile decides to run against her.

When Jenna Dallas and Adam Cole find Colleen O'Dell's body floating off the shore of their coastal town, the community of Gardiners Bay is shaken.

Addy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Now, years later, Addy's grandmother has enrolled her in a summer wilderness program.

Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death--they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories, collected and retold by folklorist Alvin Sc

Henry "Hal" Courtney, son of pirate and merchant Sir Frances Courtney, was raised at sea.

Daniel and Ash bond over a rescue a dog that's about to be euthanized.

High on a cliff in Hawaii in 1807, Hiapo Opukahaia, an irrepressibly curious native boy, dives into the sea and swims to an American merchant ship anchored offshore, embarking on an extraordinary a

After a terrible year, Madalyn needs clear skies desperately. Moving in with her great-uncle, Papa Lobo, and switching to a new school is just the first step.

When the twins go back to Roar for their first visit after rescuing Granddad, they soon discover there's no time to explore.

Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she's not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined.

When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught a young chimpanzee to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, a student at Schermerhorn's university, is so

Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texas--and nearly that long waiting for the chance to participate in the regional robotics competition, which he just knows he can win.