Paired with science geek DeNia for a journalism assignment, Rylee Swanson, starting eighth grade with zero friends, works with DeNia to research what makes friendships--and breaks them--but the more she learns, the more she wonders if there's a science toit.

Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the expectations of society at large.

Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.

In 1936, three children meet at the Mercy Home for Negro Orphans in New York State, and while not all three are orphans, they are all dealing with grief and loss which together, along with the help of a sympathetic staff member and the boxing matches of Joe Louis, they manage to overcome. Includes author's notes.

Izzy isn't happy about her recent move from the Lower East Side across the river to Brooklyn. She feels distanced from her family, especially her twin brother, as well as her new neighborhood. Then she meets Tristan, a chess prodigy who lives with his aunt and looks up to his cousin, Marcus. When they meet, family, friends, and society threaten to keep them apart.

"Ty and Corey love to visit the museum. When they step through the doors, they become scientists. They study bugs and hunt for fossils. They catch the wind. When Ty can't participate in a lab activity because of his age, he uses his big imagination at home. Discovering new things is so much fun!"-- Provided by publisher.

"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"-- Provided by publisher. Includes sections of comic-style illustrations.

In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...