Told from the perspective of an imaginary friend who grapples with the complex feelings of growing apart from their human.

When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.

Gunnery Sargent, Perceval Michelangelo Stone, is suddenly medically retired. He is handed his separation papers, because the vision in his left eye comes and goes. Thirty-nine years of service to his country he was always first to step forward, first to go where ever he has been needed -- until he is no longer needed there but somewhere else -- home. With no more people to kill or places to blowup, Stone now has to assimilate with the natives. All...

Family pup Pepita must learn how to welcome a fussy new baby into the home.

Fern's lived at the Ranch, an off-the-grid, sustainable community in upstate New York, since she was six. The work is hard, but Fern admires the Ranch's leader, Dr. Ben. So when Fern's mother sneaks them away in the middle of the night and says Dr. Ben is dangerous, Fern doesn't believe it. She wants desperately to go back, but her mom just keeps driving. Suddenly thrust into the treacherous, toxic, outside world, Fern thinks only about how to get...