Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it's off-season with most...

"Olivia and her classmates are making their own musical instruments to perform at their school assembly. But somebody keeps breaking them! Who could it be?"--Amazon.

Lotti is a shy girl who retreats into a world of books and reading, but eventually learns to make friends with other kids who share her passion, and reconnects with the real world (including her brother). Includes reading recommendations throughout.

"When a betrayal tears apart three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate, their friendship may be fractured forever. Years later, one of them risks exposure as a fraud unless she can mend the relationships and solicit help to create an original woven design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding"--

During his freshman year of high school, Jay enrolls in Theater 101 and finds himself struggling like never before as he tries to balance Shakespeare with biology and geometry, wondering if he has it in him to deliver an A+ performance.

"One woman was recognized as the premiere singer of her era with perfect pitch and tireless ambition. One woman was the most glamorous star in Hollywood, a sex symbol who took the world by storm. And their friendship was fast and firm... 1952: Ella Fitzgerald is a renowned jazz singer whose only roadblock to longevity is society's attitude toward women and race. Marilyn Monroe's star is rising despite ongoing battles with movie studio bigwigs and...

"Ella is going to be in an ad (a REAL ad, on TV) and she gets to choose ONE FRIEND to star in it with her. Ella tells Zoe, her BFF, all about it. But at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME Precious Perfect Peach Parker stops being mean to her. Peach is now SO nice to Ella that it's causing all kinds of DRAMA with Zoe. Will Ella have to choose between them?"--Back cover.

"Something very WEIRD is going on at school. Ella's second-best BFFs keep WHISPERING super secretively in class and DISAPPEARING at lunchtime. Ella tries to get to the bottom of the mystery, but it seems that everyone's lips are completely ZIPPED. Then one day, Ella finds a fancy envelope on her desk with an invitation to join SOAP, the Secret Organization for Amazing People . . ." --

"A sexy, sapphic, opposites-attract romance with Mazey Eddings' signature sparkling voice! Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin's life. After quitting her dead-end job where she'd earned minimum wage and even less respect, she's bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can't seem to stop saying yes. With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides...

Powers of telepathy and telekinesis are awake in the Theland children, Simon and Aly, while their older sister, Rachael, is filled with an inner rage which manifests as pyrokineis--but at his new school Simon begriends a girl who also has hidden powers.