Anderson, Laurie Halse

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

While on a Florida vacation with Dr. Mac, Zoe, and Maggie, Brenna tries to rescue a baby manatee only to wind up in hot water with Dr. Mac and the local manatee rescue center.

When he and the other volunteers at Dr. Mac's veterinary clinic go to help out at Quinn's Stables, David makes several serious mistakes and must prove he can be trusted before Mr. Quinn will let him even be around the spirited horse that David wants to ride.

Maggie MacKenzie is grounded by her grandmother until her grades improve, but when sick and dying puppies begin pouring into the clinic, Maggie sets out to find the puppy mill responsible.

Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.

Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.

Curzon, having matured from boy to man over the course of the winter with the army at Valley Forge, worries that someone will learn he is a runaway slave passing for free, and tries to figure out the meaning of his friendship with Isabel.