Orca currents

When fourteen-year-old Simone is assigned to mentor a kindergarten student as a part of her leadership class, she finds herself enjoying the relationship, but soon begins to suspect that something is very wrong with her student's family.

Fourteen-year-old Daria's addiction to technology creates serious problems in her life.

"Trevor has started his first job at Ashton's Fresh Marketplace, where someone is tampering with the food to terrify customers. Trevor and his friends Nick and Robyn decide to find the person who's out to destroy the store's reputation. Is it Mattie, the disgruntled ex-employee? Or is it Alex, their schoolmate who doesn't know when a joke has gone too far? As the pranks get more dangerous, the list of suspects grows. Trevor, Robyn and Nick are determined to find the culprit before someone gets hurt"--P. [4] of cover.

"Chloe is a normal teenage girl--if there's any such thing--until a formless alien being inhabits her body. The being named Welkin has entered Chloe's body as part of a school project. Chloe agrees to let this weirdo observe her life for three days as long as Welkin doesn't interfere. Welkin tries to respect Chloe's rules, but Welkin's stream of alien commentary as Chloe deals with boys, her coach and math homework has a comic, and sometimes enlightening impact on Chloe's life"--P. [4] of cover.

"Dylan and his friends attract the attention of the police when a summer bonfire gets out of control. Dylan almost loses a job opportunity at a local inn because of his antics, but he is saved by the lies of Heather, an employee at the inn. When he is caught on camera stealing towels from a summer cottage after a harmless prank, Dylan and his friends become suspects in a number of cottage robberies. In his attempt to clear his name, Dylan finds himself in more than one sticky situation"--P. [4] of cover.

Jessica's yearly backpacking trip with her father suddenly gets complicated when her new stepmother and spoiled new stepsister, Amy, come along.

Turk, in need of money but not really wanting to work, notices that girls love dogs, so he starts a dog-walking business, recruiting friends to do the actual work with the side benefit of meeting girls, but the whole scheme is threatened when Chuck, the school tough guy, wants in on the action.

Will figures that he is too old for summer camp but has just what it takes to plot his escape from one.

Callie Powers tries to cope with a bunch of reporters and television cameras, her grandmother, and her mother who has climbed a tree in protest to keep her neighbor from cutting it down.

Keegan is skiing as fast as he ever has, and has a chance to finish in first place until he sees the black wire stretched between two trees in his path.