Better Than Weird
When Aaron's long-absent father returns, Aaron must cope with bullying at school, his grandmother's illness and his father's pregnant new wife.
When Aaron's long-absent father returns, Aaron must cope with bullying at school, his grandmother's illness and his father's pregnant new wife.
Still grieving the loss of her mother, Fiona resists the idea of moving on with her life, especially when her father starts dating a psychic.
Elsie's father has gone to search for work as the Depression wears on, and the family is desperate for money. But is a dance marathon any way to solve a family's problems?
When Theresa and her family immigrate to Canada after World War II, she confronts her many fears with the help of a talisman given to her by a friend in Austria.
When Melissa spends the summer at a wilderness lake with her single-parent mother and bratty younger brother, she makes friends with Alice, a mysterious girl with a strange fantasy life.
Josh forms a club to help kids whose parents have unrealistic expectation of them, and in the process learns what it really means to be a leader.
After his mother dies in a phobia-related car crash, twelve-year-old Josh tries to make sense of his grief while he looks after his little brother and watches his father retreat into a fantasy world.
Thirteen-year old Nell and her friends are robbing banks to raise money for renovations in their foster home.
With the Olympics coming, Dinah has a new gig, but finds she is being stalked by someone she sent to jail—a former actress known as the "Queen of Disguises."
Bizarre things happen when a wild girl and a serious boy are forced to work on their school's newspaper together.
Faced with the realities of his friend Tom's home life, Craig must determine the boundaries of their volatile friendship.
Edie copes with family tragedy and her "perfect" sister during one tumultuous year.
Orphan Ahwak is determined to become a hunter and to find a place in an often hostile and terrifying world.
Baron dreams of being like his favorite hard-boiled detectives: tough, sexy and in control, but the reality is something quite different.
Arlo is the new kid in town, and he's not about to blend in just to make his mother happy.
Chloe must confront her own fears when she investigates the strange history of her great-grandfather, a magician who disappeared at the height of his popularity.
Matt makes the South Side football team, while having to deal with the return of his father and a teammate's abusive home-life.
Connor's family has a no-pets rule, but Oscar the rat needs a home.
Rusty and Katie uncover a sinister plot to run their aunt off the family farm.
Twelve-year-old Matt must learn to face a high and inside pitch while dealing with allegiances to friends and doing the right thing.
Book three of The Summer of Magic Quartet, in which Adam must recover Myrddin's staff from the heart of Glastonbury Tor.
The year is 1903, and Charlie, on the run from false accusations, ends up in Frank, a coal-mining town about to experience disaster.
As the ship-board entertainment on an Alaska-bound cruiseship. twelve-year-old Dinah Galloway is on the trail of a stolen Indigenous artifact.