Fifth-grader Penny writes a series of letters to her future sibling, including facts about their Oakland, California, home, questions about whether their moms will ever marry, and especially that he or she is loved.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a family as they move to a new town.

On a short winter day, Samuel and his father enter into a series of trades with neighbors and strangers until they come home with a brown-eyed milk cow for Mama.

Three generations of the Nickel family reunite when fourth-grader Anna, her Mom and Dad, and four-year-old sister Isabella relocate to Oakwood, Kansas.

Maurice rides his bike all over selling lemonade, while Lotta rides her bike collecting sticks as she goes; they ride different routes and are completely unaware of each other--until their bikes are wrecked and they meet at Sid's who has turned their damaged bikes into one tandem bike, and a friendship is born.

When sixteen-year-old Corinne Corcoran's father loses his job, she is forced to give up her privileged Manhattan lifestyle and move to Broken Spoke, Texas, where she discovers that life is more than shopping sprees and country clubs.

Hochglanz-Girl im Hochhaus-Schick: Die 15-jährige Nele wohnt mit ihrer Familie im schicken Hamburg-Poppenbüttel und führt ein unbeschwertes Leben. Doch plötzlich nimmt ihr Leben eine gravierende Wendung: Neles Vater stirbt und hinterlässt Berge von Schulden! Neles Mutter ist gezwungen, mit ihr und ihrem 14-jährigen Bruder das Villenviertel gegen eine Hochhaussiedlung in Hamburg-Steilshoop einzutauschen. Schnell ist Nele hier die arrogante Zicke...

"This is the story of Hattie. Hattie lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Her house is red and has its own name. There are jabbering ducks in the duckhouse, and hens that wander and poop in her mother's flowerbeds. Hattie has a dog called Tacka and two stripy outdoor cats, Havana and Stick. Hattie has been waiting forever for school to start. She's looking forward to it so much, she might burst"--Back cover.

Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he's had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger--a force he calls "the venom." Ever since he was eight years old and bit off a piece of a classmate's nose, he's been something of a loner. But all that is about to change when he goes out with his one friend, Randall, to meet some of Randall's crew hanging out at Riverside Park....

A young girl tries to adjust to moving from northeastern Saskatchewan to Toronto, where she misses her father coming home for lunch and looking at the stars at night with her family, but an eight-year-old girl from next door helps her to feel better.