Hoffman, Alice

Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.

An inexplicable death in Haddan, Massachusetts leads to the unraveling of the lives of some of the residents of the small river town.

Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.

During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen year old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers her famlily's true Jewish identity, and when thier secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend the consequences are tragic.

In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it?s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked.

Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island, until a tragic accident changes her fate.

Gretel Samuelson grows up in a suburban neighborhood with her best friend Jill, struggling to deal with the everyday disappointments and tragedies that occur on the way to adulthood.

Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.