When her best friend Daniel concocts an elaborate plot to ask the new girl at school to the fall dance, Nadine realizes she has fallen for Daniel herself but fears she does not have the courage to tell him how she feels. Includes recipes.

Carter Mason is going to Costa Luna for a week to visit her best friend, the Queen! Rosalinda is preparing for Independence Day festivities, and Carter can't wait to join the fun. Rosalinda has another special guest at the palace, though--a spoiled, demanding, nine year old princess! Carter tries to teach the young girl how to blend in and be a true princess, which is no easy feat. Especially when she tells the girl she's a royal herself and is overheard...

Since a tragedy she cannot remember, thirteen-year-old Louise has changed her name, given up gymnastics, moved in with her grandparents, and locked her feelings inside. But through her friends Reni and Hen and notes from a secret admirer she begins to find herself again.

"In this modern-day take on the classic Frankenstein tale, as told from the monster's perspective, Jolene Hall is dead -- sort of. She can walk, think, and talk, but her heart doesn't beat and her lungs stopped breathing ages ago. After Jo is abducted and subjected to horrific experiments, she wakes up to find her body is a mosaic of jagged wounds and stapled flesh. Jo has a choice: turn herself in to the authorities, or team up with her best friend...

After her parents' separation Penny and her mother moved from New York City to upstate Hog's Hollow--now, six months later, Penny is still coping with the dynamics of her new situation, including possible boy friends, enemies at school, and getting swept up in her best friend Tally's campaign to raise money to save the local animal shelter.

The kingdoms in Faerieground are threatened by war, and no one can be sure who is on which side. Soli wants to believe that her friends will come rescue her from the Crows, but will Lucy and Kheelan's allegiance to the faeries of Roseland hold them back? In the final book of the Faerieground series, readers will find out if friendship, love, and trust can prevail over the evil that plagues the faerieground.

Carter Moon is expecting to spend a quiet summer working in her parents' restaurant and hanging out with her friends Alien Drake and Chloe --- but when a Hollywood company arrives to film a movie, her sleepy California town is suddenly transformed, and Carter finds herself playing an unexpected part in it all.

Sorcery is forbidden in the land of Oz, so for two years Zerie, Vashti, and Tabitha have practiced magic in secret, fearing that otherwise their talents will be taken away--but when they are finally exposed they discover that there are more dangerous secrets in Oz than they ever suspected.

This combination of four previously published works, edited to form a single narrative, follows best friends Lucy and Soledad's adventures in Faerieground where they discover the dark secret of the Queen, and confront their own identities.

In 1963, when twins Henry and Helen and their best friends, Alan and Nicki, try to find Alan's missing brother, Carl, they stumble into the knowledge of their "subtle forms" that can separate from their physical bodies, and into a criminal's plot to make himself immortal--at any expense.