Walking around New York City was what Mitty Blake did best. He loved the city, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Mitty was a carefree guy-he didn't worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late getting started on his Advanced Bio report.
Mitty does feel a little pressure to hand something in-if he doesn't, he'll be switched out of Advanced Bio, which would be unfortunate since Olivia's in Advanced Bio. So he considers it good luck when he finds some old medical books in his family's weekend house that focus on something he could write about....

Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parent's divorce but it's been harder on her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, her brother chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls home from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where his father has abandoned him.
Lily is home babysitting her baby stepbrother when she answers the phone. She has no idea the extent to which her faith in God will be tested. There is no choice for Lily. She will rescue Michael, but will she be able to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger...

THE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refugees they were meeting - Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and Alake - mother, father, teenage son and daughter.
Soon Jared realizes that the good guys are not always innocent, and he must make a decision that could change the fate of both families. This story presents many points of view and a fresh perspective on doing the right thing.

From the Hardcover edition.

Anaxandra is taken from her birth island at age 6 by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter, Princess Callisto. Six years later, her new island is sacked by pirates and she is the sole survivor. Alone with only her Medusa figurine, she reinvents herself as Princess Callisto when Menelaus, great king of Sparta, lands with his men. He takes her back to Sparta with him where Helen, his beautiful wife, does not believe that the red-headed child is Princess Callisto. Although fearful of the half-mortal, half-goddess Helen, Anaxandra is able to stay out of harm's way--until the...

A teenage girl is confronted by a classmate who says that she bears an uncanny resemblance to his cousin, who was taken away by social services five years ago. Her parents abandoned her, fleeing the country after being accused of embezzling millions of dollars.

Lives are in the balance in bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney s newest young adult thriller, Three Black Swans.
Missy and her cousin Claire are best friends who finish each other s sentences and practically read each other s minds. It s an eerie connection so eerie that Missy has questions she wants to put to her parents. But she s afraid to ask. So when Missy hears an expert discussing newborn babies on the radio, it makes her wonder about her family.
Missy just can t let go of those nagging questions, and decides to use a school project about scientific hoaxes to try to...

A terrorist's bomb killed her brother--is Laura the next target?
Laura and Billy are all-American expat kids living in London with their parents. Charming eleven-year-old Billy wants to be an entrepreneur and is making a good start with his paper route and by selling American macaroni-and-cheese to his British friends. Pretty teenaged Laura is so boy-crazy she hopes her unique crush-ranking system will be attractive to college admissions boards. But their carefree lives change forever when Billy is handed a mysterious package in a London Underground station. In a heartbreaking...

Twice the beauty. Twice the evil.

Mary Lee and Madrigal are identical twin sisters, exactly alike in every way. They're so similar in personality and appearance that they often seem to meld into one person. Then their parents decide to separate them. While Mary Lee feels lost and alone at boarding school, Madrigal is flourishing. She's gorgeous, popular, and even has a boyfriend who loves her.

Lonely and unhappy, Mary Lee begins to wish for her sister's perfect life. But when her secret desire comes disastrously true during a weekend ski trip, Mary Lee learns...

Does Rose's diary hold the clues to a grisly unsolved murder?

Rose was thrilled to be invited to spend the weekend at her friend Angelica's beautiful summer home. It had everything a girl could want: gorgeous horses, expensive cars, and an exquisite pool. But instead of a weekend of sunbathing and caviar, someone ended up dead.

Four years later, the police have reopened the case. But this time they have Rose's diary--her private, personal diary--and Rose will do anything to get it back.

The moment Nicoletta lays eyes on him, she knows he's different.

Nicoletta meets the newcomer in art appreciation class. Jethro is brooding, mysterious, and dangerously attractive. She's so mesmerized by him, she follows him home that afternoon. Or rather, home is where she thinks he's going--until he walks past the edge of town and slips into the forest.

In the safety of the woods, Jethro's power seems to surge: It's as if the trees and boulders of the forest rise up to greet him. He's so different, so beautiful, and so . . . inhuman. Before long, Jethro...