Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

Poor Little Rich Boy Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach, and a fancy private school. But with overprotective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream. Then one day a woman appears at the front door claiming to be Caroline -- Winston's half-sister, who was kidnapped and presumed dead long before he and Heidi...

Amedo moves to a new town with a dream. He wants to discover something and he wants a friend to share his search.

Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.

Five short stories in which young people gain a sense of self.

While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.

Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chlo�e and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.

Elizabeth is very lonely until she meets Jennifer, who is a witch and who teaches Elizabeth to become a witch herself.