In the first chapter the Westen family is at the funeral of the father, John Westen. Hallie the oldest was sobbing, but Grace was not, all she could think about was pie! John was married to a lady named Portia, who is Grace's stepmother. There were 3 kids overall, Hallie, the oldest, Grace, the middle child, and the baby Dash. After the funeral, Portia uprooted the family and took them to Beverly Hills, where they are forced to move into a relative's guest house. Hallie and Grace have to rebuild their lives here in Beverly Hills to fit in with the crowd.
Can you imagine sitting in the kitchen with your mother eating cookies and all of a sudden she stops mid-sentence and walks out the door never to return? That's exactly what happened to Natalie Gordon. Four years later, now a sophomore in high school, Natalie decides to find her mother, the reason she left, and to hear the rest of her mom's story. Natalie takes twenty-four hour bus ride to Florida in which she meets people who also have stories of love and loss to share. When Natalie finds her mother will she find the answers she's been searching for?&nbs
In "Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green," Mad (Madeline), her sister, Roo (Ruby), her mom, and her dad's new 'friend' Kenneth Candy, go to La Lava, a spa. They go there because of The Very Strange and Incredibly Creepy letter, a letter in which Mad and Roo's dad sent them. Their dad is an ornithologist, and is at La Lava, tracking down bird species. But when Mad, Roo, their mom, and Kenneth get to La Lava and see their dad, he is acting very strange. Throughout a series of adventures, Mad and Roo become friends with a boy named Kyle.
Plum Coyle is getting ready to shrug off her old skin and put on a new one, getting to change from a child to an adult. But change is not all that she expected, and Plum is not sure that she can handle it. She is unsatisfied with her body shape, and can't stand the kids at school, who use every waking moment to find something bad about her. Why can't Plum be perfect like her beautiful neighbor, Maureen? Maureen, however, wants to help Plum become more confident in herself and to believe that, with the self-esteem, Plum can do anything she sets her mind to.
The book starts off with a regular family that lives on a farm. A neighbor hurts his arm and they both need to get help to run their farms which were their livelihoods. Jacob, who was once a slave, came to help with the farm to earn enough money to free his family. Some people did not like that. (Slaves had just been freed.) The family has a hard time with some people in town that will threaten their very lives. Will Jacob’s family ever be free?
Thomas's father dies and leaves behind a marble with a serpent in it and a letter that says that his education is paid for at Darkledun Manor. The story is about Thomas and how he fits in the magical school. It's a light mystery as Thomas tries to figure out the strange marble and why his father sent him to Darkledun (and how he paid for it).
<p>16 year old Rosalind has been awoken from a sleep in her stasis chamber. She soon finds out that she has slept for 62 years through a terrible time! The last thing she remembers is that she and her mother were having a fight and her mother put her in the chamber. She wakes up to find her parents and her beloved boyfriend gone. As she is adjusting to new technology and people someone tries to kill her. Who wants her dead? As this unfolds she learns about her parents true intentions for her.</p>
Whispers at Moonrise started out with Kylie Galen, the main character, finding out that she's a chameleon, a supernatural able to change her species. Oh, ya, shes also seeing her camp leader's ghost, Holiday, except Holiday isn't dead. Along her quest to find herself and the reason behind the ghost, she finds more people like her, and she also finds out about the murder of Holiday's twin sister and two others. Near the end of the novel, Kylie finds the murderer a little too late, and ends up bringing her back from the dead.
The Subway is an action/adventure novel by Christopher Taylor, based on a young Stacy Martin. Unlike most novels, Stacy, is not at all a normal girl, in a normal high school. The book starts off as an average (or so you will think) day at Stacy’s high school. After Some time, Stacy gets accepted into a facility known as “The Institute” a dream for writers and creative minds, like Stacy. The Institute is such a haven for these kinds of people because it actually turns their ideas, and stories into movies and visual images.
Robyn Hunter is just a regular girl; she has divorced parents, great friends and a steady—scratch that-- missing boyfriend and knack for getting caught up in mysteries. After volunteering at a local homeless shelter, Robyn finds Mr. Duffy,a local, dead ....and it’s all her fault. Robyn promises to find out more about Mr. Duffy, to apologize to those who knew him, but as Robyn finds out more, she finds herself facing a dangerous situation. Was Mr. Duffy really just a poor crazy homeless man?
