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When her father loses his job, seven-year-old Ramona Quimby thinks of ways to deal with the many problems that develop.

Yeva knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. Out in the wilderness there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas, or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. When her father goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the Beast he'd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. As Yeva hunts, she finds a cursed valley, a ruined...

It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program.

When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship.

"Rachael must help a mother snake find those slippery slitherers before the cat does..."

Sad because her father is going on a business trip, Madison leaves the castle and, although she knows she should not, enters the woods, gets lost, and stays out after dark, but what she fears most is that her father cannot love her after her misdeeds.