In a simple rhyme in both English and Spanish, a parent shares love for a child by telling some of the many things the child is or does that are special, whether happy, sad, playful, bad, or thoughtful.
"Bronte is ten years old when she receives a letter saying that her long-absent parents have been killed by pirates, and the lawyers tell her that their will (reinforced with serious magic) requires her to deliver gifts to her ten other aunts (not Aunt Isabelle, whom she lives with), and to start the trip immediately and alone--but as she travels the kingdoms, she begins to suspect that there is more to this journey than delivering treasures, and that her parents had more secrets than she ever realized"--Provided by publisher.
After a mad dash to safety out of a windowless shack in the woods where her captor had been holding her, a young woman calling herself Lena returns to the world after fourteen years missing. However, this is only the beginning of a new nightmare--her family swears she is not their Lena, in spite of the matching scar she has. The little girl who Lena escape with is also a question mark--she is not saying everything she knows. Meanwhile, Lena fears her tormentor is not done with her, and will not rest until the whole truth about what happened in that shack in the woods.
Maisie is a normal sixteen-year-old, until an electrical fire caused by a lightning strike leaves her with severe burns, her face partially destroyed--she is lucky enough to get a full face transplant but she soon discovers how much her looks shaped her own identity and her relationship with those around her, including her boyfriend.
High school senior Jeff Browning is upset when he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant and determined not to let a baby ruin his plans to go to college on a debate scholarship, but his feelings change after the baby is born.
