Diego finds a fragment of a letter in his grandmother's attic that sets him and his friend Martin to investigating the mysterious disembarkation of a German soldier on the Spanish coast during World War II.
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
Asks the reader to choose the path of New England innkeeper grandparents who are having a special wedding, and a famous thief, The Jewel Ninja is interested in one of the presents, the world's largest diamond.
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle. Based on a memory from the author's childhood.
Krista is still grieving the untimely death of her mother when her father's new girlfriend moves into their home. Distancing herself from everyone around her, Krista spends all of her time watching a mysterious house, the house at 758.
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Eric's Grandma Minnie and Grandpa Max keep hearing someone knock at their door, night and day, but find no one there, so Cam tries to solve the mystery using her amazing memory.
With a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt and unexpected help from her Hallelujah-spouting cousin, Henry James, Elsie Mae tries to prevent a company from building a canal through the Okefenokee Swamp.
