A story about a young girl who patiently awaits the arrival of a friend who's meant for her. While she waits she encounters many of the well-known characters of children's literature.

"Lucy and her friends meet at the soccer field for their first game of three-on-three! Thanks to Coach Nick, Lucy and the rest of Team Blue learn a few basic skills as they prepare to face Team Red."--Cover flap.

Called Firefox by her grandfather, thirteen-year-old Maggie Lou, an irrepressible heroine who always finds ways to make life more interesting, learns how to box, joins her father's construction crew and goes on her first deer hunt, where she joins a long family tradition.

Publisher Annotation: Gamer Girls are four besties who prove that girls can game! But when a new game comes out, it's not a hit with everyone. Maybe they should stick to video game battles instead of middle school arguments!

"Eighteen-year-old Rory Quinn-Morelli doesn't want to die; she wants refuge from reality for even a minute: the reality where she survived the car crash eight months ago, and her best friend, Liv, didn't. Yet her exasperating mother won't believe the Xanax incident was an accident, and her therapist is making it increasingly hard to maintain the detached, impenetrable "cold girl" façade she adopted from Liv. After she unintentionally reconnects with...

Geraldine and the Space Bees tells the story of a girl who doesn't let anyone else's opinion hold her back from realizing her dreams.

"It's early morning--a perfect time to fish. A young girl sits with her fishing pole, the good luck charm her grandfather carved sitting on a rock beside her. But is catching fish for everyone's breakfast really what she wants to do?"--Back cover.

When Lucy is almost sixteen years old, she spends a summer losing her best friend, dating a boy she previously despised, and watching her beloved grandmother fall victim to Alzheimer's disease. Includes author's note with facts about Alzheimer's disease.

Noelle tries to decide if she should date her former cheating ex-boyfriend or look for another man.

I'm dreaming of a frightful Christmas... The first thing that Patrolman Zane Cohen notices when he meets Helen Bell again in this new season is that she is not herself. The libraries of the Volumes of Wisdom have been burned to ash. Believers of the Truth are disappearing across the snow globe. A Beast of the darkness is taking hostages and building his army in Winter. And Helen...Helen sees it all unfolding in her dreams. When the Volumes of Wisdom...