In the quirky town of Culpepper, a twelve-year-old baking prodigy and her singing mother find unexpected solace and the courage to confront their past, all while the girl secretly grapples with learning to read.
Lemony Snicket uses a sad collection of cryptic letters and mementos to show the untold secrets, regrets, and tragic love story behind the Baudelaire saga.
A disgraced Roman centurion, haunted by his father's vanished legion, embarks on a perilous quest beyond Hadrian's Wall to retrieve its lost eagle standard and restore his family's honor.
After an alien invasion relocates all humans to Florida, a girl teams up with a renegade alien to find her abducted mother and save Earth from another threat, all while writing about her journey for a school essay.
In a future where humanity is lost to virtual reality, an epileptic teenager named Spaz goes on a journey with an old storyteller to save his sister and bring back human intelligence.
When a new family's red kayak overturns in the Chesapeake Bay, teenage Brady uncovers a dark truth that forces him to choose between loyalty to his friends and the devastating consequences of their secret.
A notorious prankster, exiled to a cow-obsessed town, meets his match in a rival trickster, sparking an escalating war of wits that ultimately unites them for the biggest prank Yawnee Valley has ever seen.
In 1953, 11-year-old Penny navigates a summer of polio fears, estranged family secrets, and the lingering prejudice against Italian-Americans, all while yearning for the simple joys of ice cream and baseball.
When a cursed ring makes half-mermaid Emily Windsnap choose between her human or mermaid self forever, she must race to find the missing counterpart and break an ancient curse, all while a mysterious new boy might hold the key to her fate.
A lonely ghost girl, tied to a crumbling mansion by a spectral secret, finds a chance at freedom when a new living playmate arrives, threatening her ethereal existence.
Young bat Shade and his friend Marina must escape a deceptive human paradise that is actually an animal testing lab, all while outsmarting the cannibalistic bat Goth and his deadly plan to sacrifice 100 creatures.
An orphaned baker with a special gift for cakes travels to a lost luggage shop, where she uncovers a mysterious recipe and a family secret that leads her to her long-lost parent.
When a group of innocent, yet practical, English children fall into the hands of Caribbean pirates, their adventure becomes a chilling look into childhood's amoral side and the savage detachment of innocence.
To reverse a spell that made young Hush invisible, Grandma Poss must journey across Australia to find the specific human foods that will make her visible again.
Eight-year-old Cassie, in 1939 Harlem, turns her rooftop 'tar beach' into a magical place, using imagination to dream of freedom and belonging in a story that celebrates African-American heritage.
After a car crash derails his life, a cynical teen guitarist finds an unexpected harmony by befriending a cantankerous, wheelchair-bound old man with a mysterious past.
An eleven-year-old boy, with his dog Carl Sagan, goes on a cross-country trip to launch his iPod into space. He finds unexpected family secrets and human connections on Earth.
