eccentrics and eccentricities

"Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times, Lucy retaliates. But when the fallout is far worse than she meant it to be, she gets sent to Manhattan to serve as a full-time companion to the eccentric Edith Fox. Edith is glamorous and mysterious; nothing like Lucy expected--there's one other thing about her that makes her unlike anyone Lucy has ever met--she thinks someone is trying to kill her"--Provided by publisher.

"Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people and landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in Oklahoma, the state is almost a character that is neither protagonist nor antagonist, but instead the weird next-door-neighbor you're perhaps too ashamed of to take anywhere. Who is the embarrassing one-you or Oklahoma? Dinah Cox lives in her hometown of Stillwater, Oklahoma, where she teaches in the English department at Oklahoma State University and is an associate editor at Cimarron Review."--.

Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

With Kyle Keeley and the Lemoncello All-Stars' help, four lucky girls and boys win the chance to be the first to go inside Mr. Lemoncello's Gameworks Factory. They will compete in a series of challenges and games--like live-action Chutes and Ladders and Rush Hour--to win the Titanium Ticket, which will give them the chance to win a prize beyond anything they can imagine.

Thirteen-year-olds Cooper Goodman and Justice and Liberty Gordon investigate the eccentric residents of Windy Bottom, Georgia, after the remains of Coop's long-missing grandmother are uncovered and his Gramps is the prime suspect.

"Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything"--Provided by publisher.

An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.

"Archer Helmsley's grandparents have finally returned home, but there are rumors they've brought a curse with them"--Provided by publisher.

"Take a look at the world's weirdest food--from bugs to Rocky Mountain oysters. These stories are too strange to be made up!"--Publisher.

"When Grant Falloon's dreams of winning the Babblemoney Games are hindered by his parents' alternative lifestyle, he creates his own internet country to get back into the competition"--Provided by publisher.