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Through the eyes of a young boy, short chapters describe off-the-beaten trips with the boys' parents and his little brother.

In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.

After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.

On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files.

While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

Barnaby Brocket, an eight year old, was born floating. He defies gravity, which is a horror to his parents who do not like attention.

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences.

Thirteen-year-old twins, Coke and Pepsi McDonald, continue their dangerous road trip across the country with their parents visiting famous attractions while being chased and nearly caught by mysterious forces.

When Reese is forced to go on a boating trip with his family, the last thing he expects is to be shipwrecked on an island--especially one teeming with weird plants and animals.

In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's "Odyssey," fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.

"Avatar Aang travels to the spirit world to parlay with an ancient power, bringing Fire Lord Zuko ever closer to discovering the truth about his mother's fate--and his own past.

Seventeen-year-old Natalie, a girl who seems to have everything, goes in pursuit of her real mother.

Twelve-year-old Gracie, feeling ignored by her parents, begins recording her thoughts in a journal which she soon discovers is magical and can grant her any wish, but before she can begin addressing major world problems, such as hunger and global warming, the notebook is taken from her, sending her and her crush on an adventure in search of it.

At age fourteen, Ted Merritt is eager to replace his imaginary friend, a bacon-loving pirate, with real friends but soon he is led from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, into a world of discarded "abstract companions" who are intent on wreaking vengeance on the human race.

Guided by the spirit of his legendary Mesopotamian ancestor, Jalal, Varjak Paw, a pure-bred cat, leaves his home and pampered existence and sets out to save his family from the evil Gentleman who took their owner, the Contessa, away.