After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.

Publisher Annotation: At sixteen, Hadley Moore knows exactly who she is?a swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders don?t agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywood?s latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isn?t amused. Instead, she?s determined to make sure he doesn?t bother her again. Only she?s not sure exactly who he is. The swim meet isn?t the first event...

When Grace Divine receives a frightening phone call from her brother Jude, whom she then cannot find, she knows she must turn to her supernatural powers, even though it threatens her relationship with her boyfriend Daniel.

Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.

Tomboy A.J. loves fixing cars and hanging out with the boys, while jet-setting Kate is always dressed in the latest trends. So when they start attending the same school in the fall, they find they don?t have much in common. But when they are forced to spend the following summer together at camp, a revelation of faith bonds the girls forever.

When Tashi, the rigidly formal sixteen-year-old Fourth Crown Princess of the Blue Crescent Islands, reluctantly weds roguish eighteen-year-old Prince Ramil of Gerfal, their religious, cultural, and personal differences threaten to end their political alliance and put both countries at the mercy of a fearsome warlord.

In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.

Publisher Annotation: Victoria Zell doesn't fit in, not that she cares what anyone thinks. She and her homeschooled boyfriend, Andrew, are inseparable. All they need is each other. That is, until Zachary Zimmerman joins her homeroom. Within an hour of meeting, he convinces good-girl Vic to cut class. And she can't get enough of that rush. Despite Vic's loyalty to Andrew, she finds her life slowly entwining with Z's. Soon she's lying to everyone she...

At a rustic summer camp, sixteen-year-old Tori, a senator's daughter, learns that she is descended from medieval dragon slayers, that dragons still exist, and that she is expected to hone her special abilities to join her fellow campers in battling the beasts and the man who controls them.

Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England, struggling to cope with poverty and her mother's illness, and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his father is missing, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be of great help to each other.