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A young girl wakes her father by informing him that she is Queen Alice, then draws him and other family members into her imaginative activities, from writing a book to a sleepover with fairies.

"An outcast teen girl explores the mysteries of friendship, family, faith, and phenomena, including the greatest mystery of all--herself"--

After his father's death, Stanley and his family get help from a strange new nanny named Mr. Gedrick.

Clementine's life is ordinary in every way except that she is very tiny--a fact that Santa Claus does not seem to understand.

Lenny follows Skye for a school project and learns about her life with two homes.

Alternating journal entries chronical the powerful fight for Mellie's right to choose after she becomes pregnant by rape.

When Percy's lie takes the form of a big blue Whopper, a hungry and persistent monster, Percy's guilt grows until the monster eats him up, causing him to realize that he must confess the truth to keep the Whopper from growing any bigger.

Sammy loves Halloween: the candy, the pumpkins, the scares. So when he gets the chance to be in charge of the familys next haunted house, he gets right to workeven though its only November. Suddenly Sammys inventions are scare-ifying his family day and night, even on Christmas and Easter! Sammy knows hes on his way to making a spooktacular haunted house, but his family isnt so sure they can take a full year of his tricks

Alex has always identified herself as a baseball player, the daughter of a winning coach, but when she realizes that is not enough she begins to come to terms with her adoption and her race.

Setting high ambitions for an Ivy League education and successful life, Juliet begins questioning her strict family rules in the face of her father's abandonment, her mother's instability, and her growing feelings for a boy.