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The year she is in the third grade is a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to a distant state.

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settling into their new home.

Contains seven stories of some of history's most baffling cases of lost and found, including the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, and the discovery of the HMS "Beagle, " each with a time line, definitions of key words, and related facts.

Summer for Richard Best, nicknamed Beast, means facing the two ordeals of summer school and losing his best friend, who is moving to a distant state.

Jamaica thinks her classmate Russell is a pest who is always getting into trouble, but then she discovers he is moving away.

Ella is nervous about the first day of school in her new town, but wearing her grandmother's good luck hat makes her feel better--until the other students tease her and call her names.

When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.

Ellie writes and doodles in a journal about her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.

Michael K. seeks out the help of fellow fifth graders when the SPHDZ, who are trying to blend into Earth culture, draw attention to themselves by mixing up holidays, cartoons, and commercials, and risk being discovered by Agent Umber.

After Annabelle's mother starts dating a new boyfriend, she faces life in a new town with a new school, and a new puppy, and while training the dog Annabelle decides to experiment with some of her training techniques to deal with the unruly middle school boys in her class.

Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, high-school quarter-back Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker whose erratic behavior confuses him, until Jordan discovers that the player is actually suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.

After moving from California to Montana with his mother, thirteen-year-old Guy becomes the target of the school bully, Brad Mullen, but with the help of one of his classmates, Luke Grant, Guy devises a plan to train Streak, Guy's dog, to beat Brad's dog in the town's Frisbee-catching competition.

Upon her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Delaney Collins must move to California to live with a father she barely knows, and discovers not only that he is a fairy "godmother", but she may be one, as well.