"After finding a map in a bottle, best friends Kondo and Kezumi build a boat and set out to explore the islands near their own." --

When a new hot dog stand opens in town, dog-lovers Kate and Lucie rush to try it out and the food is great, but the owners' dachshunds, Ketchup and Mustard, soon disappear and it is up to the girls to save the day, while evading boys and preparing for the Bark-in-the-Park dog competition.

"Nine-year-old besties Nour and August stumble upon the perfect place for their dream hideaway—a hidden garden full of majestic trees. Excited to build a tree house, they design blueprints, research plant care, and collect necessary tools and materials. What was intended to be a secret hideaway becomes the perfect place for a once-hidden garden to come to life for their families to celebrate a very important birthday . . . and a long-lost friendship....

Keiko, Audrey, and Jenna have always been best friends, and Keiko desperately wants it to stay that way, but now they are starting seventh grade, and everything seems to be changing; Audrey is obsessed with the idea of them all securing boyfriends, but when she and Jenna focus on the same boy their friendship starts to break apart--and then Keiko finds herself attracted to Audrey's brother, Conner (who has generally been cast as the enemy), and suddenly...

"Bo loves having lots of friends on the farm. There's always something to do and a barnyard buddy to play with. Bo doesn't want to lose out on a single second with any of them, but he can't be in two places at once!"--

Summer, 1989. Four best friends-Gabe, Kimberly, Charlie, and Sonya-are preparing for their last summer together before senior year, after which they'll all be splitting up to start college in different parts of the country. They make a promise to always find their way back to each other, no matter how far away from their sleepy Pennsylvania hometown they get. But their plans are destroyed when a plane crashes right on top of their favorite hangout...

Told in two voices, Lou Patterson reconnects with her neighbor and ex-best friend Sam Alvarez, now seniors in high school, after they rediscover their childhood bucket list. Luisa (Lou) Patterson grew up across the street from Sam Alvarez in the small, quirky town of Port Coral. Then middle school-- and an most embarrassing serenade-- happened, and Lou and Sam haven't talked in four years. Now it's the summer before their senior year. Lou is retaking...

Olivia is curious about the people moving into 16 Olcott Place. The last family there moved out in the dead of night, and the new family, the Donahues, has no idea why. Olivia becomes fast friends with Janie Donahue . . . so she's there at the house when the first of the letters arrives: --I am the Sentry of Glennon Heights. Long ago I claimed 16 Olcott Place as levy for my guardianship. The walls will not tolerate your trespass. The ceilings will...

It's the 1980's. Mia and her best friend, Lara, have known eah other since kindergarten. But even thought they both live in the same cul-de-sac in the coastal fishing town of Prince Rupert, Mia's life is very different from her non-Indigenous, middle class neighbor. Lara lives with her mom, dad and little brother in a big house with two cars in the driveway. Mia lives in a shabby wartime house that is full of relatives-- her churchgoing grandmother,...

Since her mother died when she was five years old, it's always just been Ronnie Miller and her dad. Two Korean Americans who, thanks to Ronnie's dad's adoption by white parents, have never felt all that Korean. But Ronnie is okay with that--as long as she has her dad and her best friend Jack, Ronnie is 99% certain she can get through anything. But as much as she wants everything to stay the same, the world--and her dad--has other plans. Now, Ronnie...