Discovering real beauty is understanding the true heart of a person. In her hometown of Harpersgrove, Bella Southland is considered odd. A homeschooled, early high school graduate, she's not into parties and never had a boyfriend. Besides, boys in books are better. This is a truth that Bella knows universally. She'd rather lose herself in the pages of a classic than in the terrifying universe of teenage dating. With a waistline that leaves much to...

Jenny's search for her parents leads her to Fairy Land, a rundown amusement park filled with creepily happy fairies and disgruntled leprechauns.

A CARP FOR KIMIKO is the story of a young girl's struggle against the strong current of tradition. Every year on Children's Day in Japan a kite in the shape of a carp is flown for each boy in the family. Kimiko is a little girl who desperately wants an orange, black, and white calico carp kite of her own to fly on this holiday. Kimiko's parents remind her that there is a holiday just for girls–Doll's Festival Day, but this does not stop Kimiko...

Chris Bellows is just trying to get through high shool and survive being the only stepchild in the social-climbing Fontaine family, whose recently diminished fortune hasn't dimmed their desire to mingle with Upper East Side society. Chris sometimes feels more like a maid than part of the family. But when Chris's stepsister Kimberly begins dating golden boy J.J. Kennerly, heir to a political dynasty, everything changes. Because Chris and J.J. fall...

A GIRL SEARCHING FOR A HOME IN ONE WORLD... FINDS A DESTINY IN ANOTHER. Josephine has spent the last fifteen years in foster care, always hoping for a better life. Now, with a new foster home, she feels safe, almost 'normal'-until she and her foster brother, Jack, stumble across a mysterious portal in their backyard. Jo feels a powerful connection to their new discovery-a pull to the light that she cannot explain. And when a dangerous situation...

Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades seventeen-year-old Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a 300-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.