When a young rabbit quits soccer after a disappointing first game, her family encourages her to keep trying.

In 1936 Baltimore, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl, one of twelve siblings, tries to find her place in her overcrowded family.

It is December, and there are many things for the family to do around the farm to get it ready for winter.

As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.

Charlie and Mouse, two young brothers, enjoy a day out together, attending an imaginary party and collecting rocks.

The twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek K-12 have been together all their lives so when graceful Orchid Mason arrives, with exotic clothes and glorious hair, the other seventh graders do not know what to think.

Eleanor Dross knows a thing or two about the end of the world, thanks to a survivalist grandfather who stockpiles freeze-dried food and supplies just in case. So when she reads about a Harvard scientist s prediction that an asteroid will strike Earth in April, Eleanor knows her family will be prepared. Her classmates? They re on their own!

When a proper king and queen ask their fairy godmother for a child, they find themselves gifted instead with a baby goat.

Australian fourteen-year-old Laura Horton has always been an outsider, more interested in writing, drawing, or spending time with her free-spirited family than in her fellow teens, but she is drawn to Leon, a new student, as together they explore the mysteries of her eccentric old house.

After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.