Fourteen-year-old Meg McCarran struggles to find love during World War II. Attempting to escape a severely retarded sister and a German mother in a war against Germany, she discovers the enemy in a Los Angeles sump field and within herself.

Abandoned in the Alaskan Arctic under the magical Northern Lights, fourteen-year-old Allison Atwood discovers secrets in a remote culture not her own. As the traditional Inuit way of life is threatened by modern influences and a changing environment, Allison rescues Oolik, a young shape-shifter who holds the key to restoring hope and harmony. Defying all odds, they embark upon a hazardous journey. During the ordeal, real and mythological forces thrust them into conflict, a collision of cultures, and the legend of Jade Mountain.

After ten-year-old Hannah loses her father's lucky boyhood marbles, bad things start to happen. Hannah's not-quite-right little sister almost chokes to death on one of the marbles left behind, Daddy's Liberty ship sails off to points unknown, and her mother has little time or energy to deal with the strife on the homefront. Unable to stay out of trouble for long, Hannah learns about love, death, and sacrifice as she struggles to find her place in a world at war. Resorting to petty crime, she boards the Red Car to the Long Beach Pike and an exciting new life away from the battles at home. She...

In 1952 as UFOs appear over the White House and across the nation, sixteen-year-old Allana Odette Blair is visited and marked. Since the event occurs a decade after accidentally killing her twin brother and not long after her uncle, an ace pilot, is discredited after claiming to have chased a UFO, she is disbelieved and diagnosed with the Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome. After all, anyone speaking of small grey creatures and who continues to see a dead brother now grown and ever changeable, is unable to separate reality from fantasy. Lured into a relentless game as she struggles to find hr place...