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

T helps Mama Rex by decorating a folder to carry her work.

Peter describes highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.

Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.

A Christmas quiz brings out some hidden truths for the Montfield family.

Assisting her grandmother's investigation of her grandfather's fate during the Vietnam War, Mai struggles to adapt to an unfamiliar culture while redefining her sense of family.

"Unsure of how to get her family's attention, Charlie comes across the surprise of her life one day while ice-fishing ... in the form of a floppy, scaly fish offering to grant her a wish in exchange for its freedom"--

After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Little T remembers that she was frightened last time her family visited the zoo but not why, so her creative family helps by imitating animals from A to Z until she recalls exactly what caused her fear.

Told from separate viewpoints, as Finn, Emma, and Chess Greystone and Natalie Mayhew, ages eight to thirteen, continue their quest to rescue their mothers they must return to the alternate dimension where truth is illegal.