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With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.

In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.

In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napolean, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napolean will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school.

Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.

Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course.

Shortly after her father's death, Victoria and her mother move to a small village outside of Boston, where she meets a wealthy teenage boy who teaches her a valuable but painful lesson about life.

Drew's friendship with Skitz and Hector is tested as he becomes more aware of the personal lives of the priests at his Boston Catholic school and deals with the pending expulsion of one friend and the possible abuse of another.

The past comes back to haunt three men who shared a friendship as children when Sean Devine, now a policeman, is assigned to investigate the murder of Jimmy Marcus's teenager daughter, a crime the third member of their group, Dave Boyle, is suspected of committing.

Polly's friendship with the wealthy Shaws of Boston helps them to build a new life and teaches her the truth about the relationship between happiness and riches.

Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.

When fifth-grader Amelia learns to cope with her noise sensitivity, she steps outside of her comfort zone and makes new friends.

"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room.

"A semiautobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about frenemies, fitting in, and finding your voice.

"Set in the aspirational world of the Ivy-League, . . . detective Holiday Poirot and her childhood friend Linden work to uncover a mysterious murder on campus"--Provided by publisher.