Irish siblings Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan find themselves in far-flung places as they desperately search for a family heirloom--a statue stolen by their great-great-grandfather aboard the "Lusitania" the day it was sunk--that holds much more than sentimental value to others around the globe.

Max learns a more sophisticated word than the ones his sister tries to teach him.

Judy's big plans for the summer seem ruined when two of her best friends go away, and then her parents leave her and Stink with Aunt Opal, but a new "thrill-a-delic" plan has her racing toward fun.

In 1945, ten-year-old Molly does not want to share her puppy Bennett with her brother but finds she might need to change her mind.

Twenty-six-year-old Carolyn MacKenzie, having suffered from the September 11, 2001, death of her father and finished her clerkship in Manhattan, decide to track down her brother who disappeared ten years earlier, and uncovers a web of lies and deceit involving her family and wealthy, powerful people whowant to keep a secret quiet.

Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.

"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--

When things change around the house after her baby sister is born, Frances decides to run away--but not too far.

"Knowing their lives are at stake, Shay and Odin Remby race to stay one step ahead of Singular Corp in their efforts to expose the company's secret and highly unethical experiments"--