Ugly and mean, the Brute family lives up to its name until Baby Brute makes an important discovery.

To work off a family debt, ten-year-old Hastin leaves his desert village in India to work as a circus elephant keeper but many challenges await him, including trying to keep Nandita, a sweet elephant, safe from the cruel circus owner.

Spending the summer in Tarrytown, New York, is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she does not want to admit.

As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.

After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

Nikolai asks his animal friends to help him answer three important questions: "When is the best time to do things?", "Who is the most important?", and "What is the right thing to do?"

Young army vet Michelle Sanderson returns to Blackberry Island Inn, the home she left long ago, to claim her inheritance and recuperate. But she finds Carly Williams, her former best friend, running the inn and the business on the verge of financial collapse. To save the inn, the two women must put aside their feelings and work together, but can they overcome the betrayal that has come between them?

"When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"-- Senator Anthony Ruiz is running for president. Throughout his successful political career he has always had his daughter's vote, but this presidential campaign brings a whole new level of scrutiny...

On Saturdays, Delia and Jesse help Shoebox Sam, who teaches them about charity and love by not only repairing shoes for paying customers, but also giving poor and homeless people the dignity--and footwear--they need.

"Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--