"When seventh-grader Mitch Sloan moves to Jonasburg, Indiana, he uses his exceptional skills in math, money, and sports statistics to make friends--but gets in over his head when he starts a football betting ring"--

"When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children"--

When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.

To make ends meet, twelve-year-old Ivy's mother goes to work as a waitress and takes in a boarder, a strange boy named Caleb who Ivy is sure is a liar.

Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their house in Sutton, Indiana. Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town, but his dad likes the family to stay close to home. Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx Malone. Styx is sixteen and oozes cool. He's been lots of different places. Styx promises Caleb and Bobby Gene that together, they can pull off the Great Escalator...

Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay.

Almost thirteen-year-old Evan Goldman learns what it means to be a man when his parents separate and he and his mother move from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, right before his bar mitzvah.

"While Evelyn's mother travels to Europe despite being gravely ill, the rest of the family continues to grow and flourish. Brothers Arthur and Calhoun Conley become fathers, and Rosie Travilla weds Will Croly in June. Maud, Sydney, Lucilla, and Grace acts as bridesmaids and the two little Elsies --Elsie Raymond and Elside Dinsmore --are flower girls. Long-term bachelor Dick Percival and Maud Dinsmore are married in a small ceremony at Ion, and Captain...

Meet Timmy McAllister, a normal kid who lives in the 100% pure vanilla town of Cherry Creek, Indiana (pop. 23,745) where everyone and everything is - normal. Normal, that is, until the day Timmy orders his very own ninja! As a little kid, who needs imaginary friends, or even man's best friend, when you can have your very own ninja? Timmy, and the town of Cherry Creek, may never be the same...

Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.