Upset with her parents for arguing on what she hoped would be a perfect day, Amber gets lost at a county fair when she tries to follow her best friend Justin and his family through the crowd.

Jasper just wants to play knights and dragons but Isabel loves him and wants to plan their wedding.

Elmore Green likes being an only child. So when his parents bring a new small person, his baby brother, into the house, he is not pleased and does his best to keep the new small person out of his life.

"A young girl's Christmas wish for a baby sibling is granted in this heartwarming adoption story."-- Daisy dreams, hopes, prays, and even asks Santa Claus to bring her a sister or brother until finally, her family gets its miracle. Includes author's note on the real story behind the book.

Feeling left behind when his beloved Nan leaves for a week-long cruise, Jasper John Dooley realizes that he will be less lonely if he has his own adventures, which include a stapling mishap and a hamster escape.

A rare few are singleborn in each generation, and therefore given the right to rule by the gods and goddesses. Bo Trousillion is one of these few, born into the royal line and destined to rule. Though he has been chosen to succeed his great-aunt, Queen Runa, as the leader of the Alskad Empire, Bo has never felt equal to the grand future before him. When one twin dies, the other usually follows, unable to face the world without their other half....

At long last, it's Jasper John Dooley's turn to be Star of the Week. But events don't unfold quite the way he had expected. When his best friend, Ori tells the class about his new baby sister, no one is interested anymore in Jasper's show and tell. The week just goes downhill from there. Fortunately, with the help of his parents and friends--and a hammer and some nails-- by the time Friday arrives, Jasper John Dooley knows once again that he has what...

As lovely as one of the precious gems at her parents' jewelry store, Amber Taylor is shy and introspective--qualities misread by others as being stuck-up and superior. Facing a long, lonely summer working at the family shop, Amber's world lights up when the Matthews family suddenly moves into the house next door, a property that has stood neglected for the longest time. And when she meets Brayden Matthews, an only child just like her, Amber soon becomes...

Twelve-year-old Violet Crane is the only child in a broken home, with a mother who is increasing scared of leaving the house, so when a new family with five boisterous children (and a dog) moves in next door she is convinced that they must be the happiest family in the whole world; they cheerfully include Violet in their games but, as school starts, she becomes aware that even happy families have their problems, and that twelve-year-old Reggie (the...

Sixth-grader Emme Remmers feels that as an only child she has to be the peace-maker for her parents rapidly deteriorating marriage, and she could use some help--so the new bakery, Daisy's Desserts, where everything is baked with love, may offer the perfect solution for the dinner she is planning for her parents' anniversary.