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In 1930s Liverpool, England, Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed mother, who works long hours doing other people's washing, and even though she sometimes must leave the children alone in the house, she cautions them not to speak to the O'Rileys next door, who go to a different church.

Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.

"Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier"-- Provided by publisher.

Since her father's death, Cora, twelve, longs for a permanent home for herself, her special-needs sister, and their mother while navigating middle school and studying trees using her father's field notes.

Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.

Eleven-year-old Beulah "Blue" Warren, a fearless girl surrounded by boys, is beginning to forget her deceased mother but a new revelation gives her the strength to grieve for her mother once and for all.

Dani's father is away and Dani is staying with her grandparents. She wants to be a surprise birthday present for her best friend, who lives far away. Her grandmother agrees---if Dani is brave enough to take the train by herself.

On or off the field, Matt and Ben couldn't be more different. Ben Roberson is an all-or-nothing player: he's big, he's bold, and he's brash. Ben's swing can hit a ball right out of the park, but that's if he can get a hit at all. Matt Baker is small, and shy, and his stutter has him avoiding the spotlight, even if he's the best all-rounder on the team. But while Matt knows he's got the chops, a part of him has always envied 'Big Ben' and his attention-grabbing...

Having finally developed the psychic ability her father has used to provide for them, twelve-year-old Spirit Holden, aided by the ghost of her beloved dog Sky, investigates the mystery of why wild dogs are dying on their remote island.

Hensely's, a neighborhood general store, always seems to have what Molly, Kate, and their mother need.