Sixteen-year-old Kat's con-artist mom takes on one last heist before going straight for good, but the job takes a deadly turn.

"Amelia Bedelia's mother loves garage sales so much, she decides to have one herself! But Amelia Bedelia loves her garage and does not want to sell it, so she and her parents decide to call it a yard sale instead. People come from all over the neighborhood to buy Amelia Bedelia and her parents' old things, and one woman even buys the yard!"-- Provided by publisher.

Unlike her adventurous orinthologist mother, shy eleven-year-old Loah prefers a quiet life at home with no surprises until her mother's expedition to the Arctic tundra to study birds turns dangerous and Loah, alone at home, discovers her own courage.

Seventeen-year-old Evie, devastated by her father's death and the knowledge that he had planned to leave their family for another woman pregnant with his child, finds a way forward through a prestigious photography class and handsome classmate Declan.

"A girl and her mother wander through the city looking for the many things to be grateful for, and enjoying being present and aware in the moment."-- Provided by publisher.

A mother shares family memories and stories with her daughter as she applies henna to the young girl's hands.

Grace's excitement to accompany her "fun" mom on a delivery to Titan quickly turns to frustration when her mom is too preoccupied with her mission to spend time with Grace, yet when their ship stops working on their return home it is up to Grace to save the day.

"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled "stupid"--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading"--Provided by publisher....

"When Jo steps onto planet Tau Ceti e, it should be the happiest moment of her life. After all, she's been training ever since she can remember to be a cadet pilot in the International Space Agency. She's dreamed of the day she and her family would leave Earth forever and begin life as pioneers on a new planet. But now she can't stop thinking of everything that has gone wrong on their mission: the terrible accident that almost destroyed their craft,...

After surviving a fire in which her father dies, Nora and her mother live in a cemetery, but when her mother disappears and a loan shark steals her savings, Nora finds support from her cemetery neighbors to earn some money and search for her mother.