Seventeen-year-old Jericka tries to navigate the impending death of her estranged grandmother in a haunted small Maryland town.

"There are two Earths. Perfectly ordinary and existing in parallel. There are no doorways between them, no way to cross from one world to another. Unless you're a shifter. Canna and Lily are the same person but they refuse to admit it. Their split psyche has forced them to shift randomly between worlds -- between lives and between families -- for far longer than they should. But one mind can't bear this much life. It'll break under the weight of it...

"Nida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh's niece -- the poet who will fill her uncle's shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror. But for Nida, her poetry letters are her heart and sharing so much of herself with a world that stereotypes her faith and her hijab is not an option. When Nida is illegally frisked at a Democratic Senatorial candidate's political rally, she writes a scathing poem about the politician,...

"The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last four years trying so hard to be a Good Kid for her mom that she has no idea who she really is anymore, and two, she has no idea what she wants because of it. The solution? Pack her bags and move to New York for the summer, where her childhood best friend Tom and co-creator of The Getaway List — a list of all the adventures they’ve wanted to do together...

"Summer finally comes to a close for Makoto and her friends--but not without incident! In Aomori, Beachy makes a surprise visit and helps Chinatsu with a summer project that's out of this world. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Akane gets sauced and puts Makoto's plans to return to Aomori on hold. And when Makoto gets back, she'll find plenty of surprises waiting for her. However, the biggest surprise comes when her friends find Makoto in a compromising situation...

"A whole new journey begins, with plenty of boisterous Friends for Kyururu and Serval to meet and play with along the way! Fun times, chaotic adventures, laid-back lazy days - this volume's chock-full of adorable antics!"--Back cover.

What are the Friends up to today? Are they hunting treasure and getting into playground games? Maybe they're discovering what it means to be an adult and the true meaning of Christmas, or finding fashionable kitchenware and losing their marbles! Come on down to Japari Park and get a glimpse of their chaotic, delightful world!

"A winning debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime." Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home)....

Asher has maneuvered himself into a position of great importance, but his ambition may cost him his best friend's life. Promise and Asher have each come into their own, but will they ever be able to come together?

"It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late--stoned and radiant--in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont-- to an artist colony where kids...