Life gets complicated once again for teenaged Alyssa when her mother returns home from an asylum and the mysterious Morpheus tempts Alyssa with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland.

While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.

Fairy-in-training Ella is impatient to finish growing up and her wish to prove her readiness leads to discoveries about how she can save the day without magic.

"Told from different viewpoints, this is the story of five seventh-graders who face their own personal challenges [and] are also determined as a group to help two very special people reconcile a long-standing dispute"--

Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.

As ten-year-old Gwyn searches for a missing neighbor in her new town in Iowa, she learns much about her mother, who grew up there but has suffered from memory loss since Gwyn was four.

A descendant of the inspiration for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.

A mother and her young daughter stay connected with sticky note messages as the mother tries to reassure her daughter that she will have a wonderful time at camp.

Twelve-year-old Winifred is being fostered by the eccentric but kind Margery Dawson while her mother is dealing with addiction problems, and mostly Fred is determined not to form any attachments to anybody--until the condition of Toby, the abused dog next door, captures first her attention and then her heart, and somehow it becomes increasingly difficult to stay detached from the people who are helping her.

"Four sisters rely on each other--and a bit of mysterious magic--to cope with their mother's illness"--