"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...

Thirteen year-old Riley was not born to be a leader, but the magical community thinks she and her adopted brother, Dahl, are meant to lead the world into the Age of the Final Eclipse, so now the one thing Riley must do is believe in herself.

They're just momentary glimpses at first: her front door is red instead of its usual green, there's a preschool where the garden store should be. But when her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo, Natalie knows something isn't right. She gets a visit from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls "Grandmother," who tells her, "You have three months to save him." And when she meets Beau, it's as if...

Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave. Cyrus Olsons dad is a heroNorthfields former football star and now one of their finest firefighters. Everyone expects Cyrus to follow in his dads record-breaking footsteps, and he wishes they were rightexcept hes never been brave like that. But this year, with the help of...

Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...

Grace is from China, but she doesn't remember it. She was adopted at a young age and now she and her family are going back to adopt her younger sister. Before the new edition arrives, Grace, Jaden, and her dad adventure to the Great Wall of China.

"Ivy Pocket has been adopted--finally--and she couldn't be more pleased with her fate, even if Mother Snagsby keeps trying to get her to clean the funeral home--as if she's the maid! But Ivy Pocket has bigger problems than the odd behavior of her new parents. She has mysteries to solve, dark truths to uncover, friends to rescue, bodies to bury, and curious questions to answer. You do understand what all of this means, yes? You do understand that SOMEBODY...

A much wanted little boy finds love in a family and is able to share love with his little dog Otis.

After learning that her birthmother has died, Polly Stone tries to get back on track by investigating the mystery of an abandoned Black settlement with the help of a ghost and the boy who is blackmailing her over her abilities to hear the dead. When Polly Stone's birthmother dies, she feels lost and adrift. How do you mourn someone you never knew? Even the dead, whose final thoughts Polly can hear, offer no advice. Instead Polly fails her classes,...

"Daniel loves birds, and wants to learn how to whistle as a gift for his new adoptive baby sister Angela. On the day of her adoption, Daniel still can't whistle. It is through meeting Jessie, Angela's birthmother, that Daniel may learn the trick to whistle like the birds he loves."--