Mouse feels sad because his best friend Bear is getting ready to go to bed for the winter.

In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972.--

Follows fifth grader Max as he searches for his best friend who disappeared, leaving behind a strange note.

"A girl with social anxiety becomes the secret voice of the advice column in her middle school newspaper"--

The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but...

After awakening early from his winter sleep and wishing for someone to play with, Little Bear is joined by new friends who help him make a snowman. On board pages.

A lonely little duck looks into the water and finally finds someone to play with.

After fourteen-year-old Ozzy's scientist parents are kidnapped, Ozzy's only help may be a classified ad that says "Wizard for hire."

Twelve-year-old Parker must unravel a curse to save his family's beloved Maine motel.

Two thirteen-year-old boys share neighborhood adventures, complaints about their older sisters, family secrets, and even guilt that bind them together in a special friendship.