"A very special Heartstopper story set over a challenging holiday season... Reuniting Tori Spring, her little brother Charlie, and Charlie's boyfriend Nick, this novella sees the Spring siblings brave a particularly difficult festive season"--

The adventures of a nine-year-old twin brother and sister who, despite constant bickering, support each other loyally at home and at school.

A celebration of all kinds of families from sprawling extended families and close-knit units to adopted and chosen families.

Left alone when Rush, Mark, and Mona go away to boarding school, Randy and Oliver are lonely and bored until a mysterious letter brings the first of many clues to a mystery that takes all winter to solve.

Feeling neglected, Nora makes more and more noise to attract her parents' attention. It's tough being the middle mouse. No one's paying any attention to Nora, so she decides to do something her family can't ignore: make noise. Nora slams windows, bangs doors, and upsets furniture, to no avail. It's not until she crashes out the door-and the house goes strangely silent-that her family realizes: a noisy Nora is much better than no Nora at all.

From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes, refreshments, and clowns.

It's a big day for a little girl when she discovers her first loose tooth and makes a trip to the grocery store on the mainland.

Chaos ensues when Keisha's father brings an escaped alligator home to Carter's Urban Rescue, but it gets out of the bathroom while Grandma is guarding it.

"When a huge black dog appears outside the Hope family home, each member of the household sees it and hides. Only Small, the youngest Hope, has the courage to face the black dog, who might not be as frightening as everyone else thinks." -- Publisher.

The second book in the Greystone Secrets series from the master of plot twists, Margaret Peterson Haddix?perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and The City of Ember! Until their mother vanished, the Greystone kids?Chess, Emma, and Finn?knew nothing about the other world. Everything is different there. It's a mirror image, except things are wrong. Evil. Their mother tried to fix it, but she and an ally got trapped there along with Ms. Morales, their...