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Now permanently settled with Aunt Fiona, who has adopted him and his siblings, thirteen-year-old William gets the chance to play Puck in a professional production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Libby Day, still haunted by the day she witnessed the murder of her family on their farm in Kinnakee, Kansas, and twenty-five-years after testifying that her fifteen-year-old brother Ben was the killer, Libby is contacted by the Kill Club and devises a money making scheme that leads her back into a killer's path.

After the death of her father and her mother's emotional breakdown, graphic design student Hallie Palmer decides to leave college and take care of her eight younger siblings.

Having lost her stepfather, grandmother, and mother in the span of a year, seventeen-year-old Lainey unexpectedly reconnects with long-lost relatives, copes with her five-year-old brother's behavioral problems, and endangers her long-term romance when drawn to a young man with an unexpected connection to her mother.

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan knows what it's like to be haunted by the past.

Twelve-year-old Samantha struggles with how to best help her artistic older brother and parents who will not have him tested for a learning disability.

Twelve-year-old Joey and his fifteen-year-old sister Philly relate their experiences trying to cope in a family already strained by the mother's extended travel, and pushed further apart by the father's disappointment that Joey is more interested in drawing deer than hunting them.

Nine-year-old Shirin wants to join her family and other Muslims in fasting for Ramadan but is told she is too young, so she seeks other ways to participate including, perhaps, getting along better with her older brother, Ali.

High-school junior Peggy Fleming Farrell finds herself without a car, working at the Gas 'n Git, and fantasizing about a boyfriend during the hot summer her distracted parents are expecting yet another baby to join their ice-skating family.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Because she's the oldest and can do the most, Carolyn is sure she is loved the best.

Pru Burbidge and her brother Jesse are forced to take desperate measures to keep their family together when their father takes off shortly after their move to an old farmhouse in a secluded Nova Scotia town, and their mother dies not long afterwards, leaving Pru and Jesse to care for themselves and their younger siblings.

Describes the excitement of waiting for a new baby to arrive and following its growth.

His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.