NYT - Middle Grade Paperback

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

Peter rescued Pax when the fox was just a kit. And when Peter is forced to abandoned Pax after his father is called to fight in the war and Peter is sent to live with his grandmother, both Peter and Pax are heartbroken. When Peter arrives at his grandmother's home, he sets out under the cover of night to travel the 300 miles back to his home, hoping to find Pax. Meanwhile, Pax has set out on his own journey to find the boy he loves amidst the dangers...

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Isabella is only eleven, but she is already so used to hearing about how "exotic" and unusual she is due to her black father and white mother that she is sick of her biracial identity. Now that her parents are divorced and fighting over her worse than ever, Isabella needs a way to define herself so she can feel not like two halves, but a whole.

When Chet "the Bull" Bullens pulls an unthinkable prank on shy, misunderstood Virgil, which also affects Gulliver--Virgil's pet hamster--Valencia Somerset and Kaori Tanaka find their lives and Virgil's and Chet's colliding in surprising ways.