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...

When Shelley leaves Oregon to spend the winter in California, she feels she is the happiest girl in the world, for in her new high school, she meets Philip--the "only boy." A sixteen-year-old girl gains perspective into herself and her family when whe leaves her comfortable Oregon home and spends a year visiting with friends in California... She learns, in the midst of the friendly Michie family, that there are many ways to be oneself, and many different...

On Callie's seventeenth birthday, she receives her vision of the future--a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they're meant to be. But Callie's vision shows her murdering her younger sister, and she is arrested and sent to a prison for those destined to break the law. Callie escapes and, on the run from the government and from her future, hoping to change her fate and protect her sister.

A mother wishes that her daughter will sing, play, love, stand up for herself, and know that she has all she needs to make her own wishes come true.