In the poor town of Carp, New York, a teenage group enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than fifty thousand dollars--enough money to start a new life.

When it is "Backward Day," Judy must turn her usual sour mood upside down and be happy and nice for a change.

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

"It's been a year--a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones--holidays, birthdays, everything without her. Leo feels like she should remember what happened that night. But all she knows is that she left the party and got into a car with Nina and Nina's boyfriend, East. East, who once promised Nina he'd watch out for her younger sister. East, who has been trying to keep that promise every day since. But East won't give Leo the one thing she wants--the...

As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.

Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.

"Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh's death--the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days...

"A book about measuring the immeasurables in life!"--

A play date goes awry when Baby Billy and his mustache meet Beard Baby.

Illustrations and rhythmic text affirm a young girl's belief that everyone in the world is connected, from relatives far and near, to her chatty neighbor, to her family cat, to herself.