After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim, but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.

Pollyanna Whittier is a young orphan sent to live with her stern, and emotionally distant, Aunt Polly. Despite her bleak situation, Pollyanna is determined to see the best in everything. She plays what she and her late Father called "The Glad Game", where one must always find something to be glad about, no matter the circumstance. Pollyanna's hopeful outlook brings joy to the dour New England town she now calls home, and its grateful citizens and...

"This inspirational novel popularized the expression, What Would Jesus Do? Written by a Congregational minister, it tells of four parishioners who resolve to undertake no action without first considering Christ's example"--

Meet Whitney, Taylor, and Charisse, three women who have been best friends since high school. However, this devoted troika is about to discover a wave of unexpected troubles.--Cover p.[2].

Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.

"It's the summer before the sisterhood departs for college--their last real summer together before they head off to start their grown-up lives. It's the time when Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen will need their Pants the most" -- Back cover.

A Clean Slate chronicles the days of Kelly McGraw, a Chicago woman who suddenly can't remember the last five months of her life, a time when she was dumped by her soon-to-be fiancé and laid off by the company she thought would make her partner. Overwhelmed and confused but otherwise feeling wonderful, she begins to realize that she has a clean slate in life. She can do anything she wants, go anywhere she wants, be anything she wants. But what,...

Told over the course of a single day and from three fierce perspectives, follows Zanne, a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty, who must decide if the sacrifices she made for the job are worth the moral price she has to pay.

Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.

The gang learns some lessons about honesty and respect when they are framed for some mischief aimed at the new school teacher for which they are not responsible.