When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.

Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life.

"If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park explores different answers to this provocative question in linked poems that capture the diverse voices of a middle school class"-- Provided by publisher.

"Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus,...

When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.

When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.

Regretting her limits as a stay-at-home mom when she enters midlife, Holly loses weight and immerses herself in extramarital sex, while celibate single mom Andrea considers pursuing Holly's cast-off husband and Marissa, the mother of a terminally ill daughter, witnesses the unraveling of her family.

Twelve-year old Black girl Charley, who dreams of becoming the first professional female pitcher, must navigate adolescence during the turbulent segregation era and the beginning of the Great Migration.

Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.

Travis e Cola Zodiac sono una giovane coppia, originaria della città di Metherin. Stanno per diventare genitori per la prima volta e per loro è una gioia immensa. Tuttavia, l'ecografia mostra che c'è qualcosa di diverso nel loro bambino. Quando arrivano in ospedale, un certo dottor Crox cerca di trattenere Travis in ogni modo, impedendogli di assistere al parto della moglie, che definisce un caso speciale. Due agenti di polizia, di pattuglia...