In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.

Mindy Kim wants to fit in at her new school, but her favorite lunch leads to scorn, then a thriving business, and finally big trouble.

After a tragedy a young boy discovers a connection between music and colors that helps guide him and gives him comfort in times of darkness.

On a seventeenth-birthday cruise with her parents and three friends just months after her boyfriend died, Natalie is surprised to connect with a fellow passenger, who then mysteriously disappears.

Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who can grant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more painful than the loss of her mother.

After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.

Publisher Annotation: "A violin and a middle-school musical unleash a dark family secret in this moving story by an award-winning author duo."

Publisher Annotation: Stanley Darrow isn?t sure what to expect when the mysterious Mr. Gedrick appears on his doorstep. He is certain, however, that his family could use Mr. Gedrick?s help: Their lives?and their house?have been a mess since Stanley?s dad died. The strange new nanny quickly helps them transform their cluttered home into a sparkling and spotless version of its former self, but it?s going to take more than a clean house to help the Darrow...