Sweeney, Joyce

A child describes how her room, her house, her town, her state, and her country become part of a map of her world.

In the third trimester of her pregnancy, Florida high school senior Sophie tries to discover the identity of the father she has never known, while adamantly refusing to disclose the name of her own baby's father.

While trapped in a cave in a Florida forest, two brothers reveal to each other and their friends the truth about their previously hidden feelings.

When Becky gives each member of her family the self-help book "Creative Wishing," everyone tries to make his or her wish come true with unexpected results.

Carla watches with growing concern as her adored and extremely talented older brother, performing in summer stock theater before heading off to make a Hollywood film, begins to crack under the pressure of always having to be perfect.

When Becky gives each member of her family the self-help book "Creative Wishing," everyone tries to make his or her wish come true with unexpected results.

Fourteen-year-old Deidre ponders the meaning of true love as she deals with her enormous crush on the twenty-sixyear-old musician in the apartment upstairs.

Eighteen-year-old Corey sees a threat to his dream of winning the basketball championship when he discovers that the new player on his team is a girl-stealing, friend-framing, team-destroying force of evil.

When thirteen-year-old Hunter, struggling to deal with a harsh, money-grubbing foster mother, three challenging foster sisters, and a school bully, returns to his childhood faith and prays to St. Gabriel, he instantly becomes aware that he does, indeed, have a guardian.