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Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever-increasing problem.

Twelve-year-old Max struggles to manage a grieving mother, a special-needs brother and a desire to play hockey.

Fed up with her family's preoccupation with her sister's coming wedding, Persis tells no one of her music school scholarship until the disappearance of a valuable wedding gift precipitates a crisis that reveals a new side to her family.

Afghan women Mariam and Laila grow close despite their nearly twenty-year age difference and initial rivalry, as they suffer at the hands of a common enemy--their abusive, much-older husband, Rasheed.

Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Third-grader Stuey Lewis navigates the ups and downs of school and family life.

Freddy hates being the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school play.

In 1946 a ten-year-old girl tries to understand and overcome her stern father's objections to having a Christmas tree in the house.

In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to carry on his mysterious mission.

As each of the five members of the Bean family tries to write a "roof" poem, they come to realize just how nice it is to be a bean.