Over Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his new wife, and her half- and step-siblings in Sydney, Australia.

Tells the story of the Meadows family and the life they lead in the quiet country town of Blue Hill, Virginia.

Dime can't get along with her parents. When she moves in with her older brother, she finds out that if she starts believing in herself, other people will too.

It was difficult for Ginny at first, but her senior year is finally starting to feel kind of normal, until she sees him--the beautiful mystery boy in her English class.

From the Publisher: Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody,...

Nine-year-old. Calvin catches the attention of the school bully on the day before he starts fourth grade, while at home, the unfriendly, fifteen-year-old daughter of his mother's best friend has taken over his room.

Convinced that she does not want to go away to camp, a little girl begins to have second thoughts when her mother enrolls in a camp for mothers only.

A large family gets into an increasingly complicated home repair situation when the doorknob falls off a door.

Alice's brother teases her mercilessly because she cannot say the word "animal" correctly, but she gets her revenge on her birthday.

Before her plane even touches down in Newfoundland, Cheryl is already plotting her escape.