Outcasts United is the true story of a soccer team in Clarkston, Georgia. The team is made up of refugee boys who have left their native countries for a variety of reasons, but they all share a passion for the sport. The team is known as the Fugees, and they are coached by a young woman named Luma Mufleh. Using soccer, Luma teaches her team to learn responsibility and cooperation. Luma also helps the families of her team members adjust to life in the United States using her knowledge of many langugages and American culture.
Daire Santos has so much more to learn about her destiny -- to become a Soul Seeker and protect her small New Mexican town from the evil Richters. The Richters, a family that practices black magic, has now infiltrated the Lowerworld, and with an undead army on their side, they won't stop until they have complete control over the world.
Eleanor is the new girl in town — after being sent away from her mom for months, she’s moved back in with her mom, her evil stepfather, and her step-siblings. Wearing mismatched clothes, she’s an obvious outsider that first day on the bus. Then there’s Park.
NERVE is the game that everyone's playing--the game of truth or dare without truth as a choice. Vee's friends think she isn't the type of person to do that kind of thing, and Vee herself questions her ability too. But when Vee takes a simple dare, she aces it and can't wait to do the next one.
After her mother dies, American Katie Greene is shipped off to Japan to live with her aunt. Getting thrown into another country is hard, especially when you don’t know the language or customs. Katie struggles to blend in, and when a senior boy decides to challenge her, it doesn’t get any better. She gets pulled rapidly into the dark side of Japan, where mobs and gods are at war. Katie, who just wants to become invisible, must pick a side and fight, for she is more important in this battle than anyone can know.
Vanessa Adler knows that dancing runs in her family, but she isn't so sure that she belongs at the prestigious New York Ballet Academy. She didn't go to NYBA to dance--instead, she went in hopes of finding her older sister, Margaret, who mysteriously disappeared from the Academy three years ago. But Vanessa should have known that there's more to NYBA than meets the eye. She should have known that the two boys so eagerly willing to help her each had their own motives.
Capital Girls is a story of four high school seniors in the heat of Washington D.C. drama — political and otherwise. Jackie, Taylor, Lettie, and Laura Beth had been friends forever with matching charm bracelets to prove it. After Taylor’s death in a mysterious car accident, the other three girls are lost and not sure what to believe.
Doris is 15 and lives in the barrio with her parents, both musicians. She often spends her free time with the pigeons that live on the rooftop and their caretaker, Doña Iris. Then her mother faints during a performance, is diagnosed with a heart disease, and goes home to Puerto Rico without saying goodbye. Her father quickly finds a new girlfriend, leaving Doris with the fragments of her old life. Between her conflicted family and troubled friends, Doris’s only solace come from the pigeons.
Challenged with the fact that her death had been one of brutal torture, Velveteen struggles to keep her emotions hidden in purgatory. As a ghost, she’s doing pretty well, friends and a good job, until she picks up a soul that she just can’t seem to shake. Nick’s one of those jock types with that smile that makes most girls’ knees weak, and Velvet can’t stand it. Falling for him is inevitable, though, as he gets thrown into the mess of her life.
Caro has a pretty good life: two loving parents, loyal friends, and a fun boyfriend. She's even excited to start her junior year of high school. But things change when Caro's older sister returns home after spending eight years in a convent. The fact that Hannah is eleven years older than Caro makes them practically strangers. Caro doesn't know how to explain Hannah's presence to her friends, and her tight family is shaken up by Hannah's mysterious return. What Caro doesn't know is that Hannah is hiding a secret, one that she's buried deep inside for many years.
