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Francine and Muffy are good friends until Muffy lets Francine take the blame for cheating on a test.

Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write.

Grey Cloud was a racing pigeon that belonged to Orville Breen, a strange kid.

A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school, but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.

Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.

Their friends must decide which party to attend when Francine schedules her birthday party for the same day as Arthur's birthday party.

It's an unseasonably cold Thanksgiving at the mountaintop retreat where the Sisterhood has gathered. They are ready to face their next challenge-- dismantling a highly successful illegal baby selling ring.

"Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and her husband, Keith, have become routine. She resents that he's working long hours and staying out all night, and he accuses her of not giving him the attention he deserves. Their marriage is at a cross-roads and Celine worries how her 10-year-old daughter, Kassie, will be affected. But the situation turns devastating when Celine is diagnosed with breast cancer....