Content Warning: This story includes depression, depiction of war, mentions of assault   It’s 1940, and Jody is moving with her military family yet again. This time, to a small naval base in Pearl Harbor. She’s always created a “top ten” list for each new home to help her adjust, and with Hawaii being so […]

Alex is twelve, and he did something terrible. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home, where he’s bossed around by an annoying and self-important do-gooder named Maya-Jade. He hasn’t seen his mom in a year, his aunt and uncle don’t want him, and Shady Glen’s geriatric residents seem like […]

Max Bretzfeld doesn’t want to move to London. Leaving home is hard, and Max is alone for the first time in his life. But not for long. Max is surprised to discover that he’s been joined by two unexpected traveling companions, one on each shoulder, a kobold and a dybbuk named Berg and Stein. Germany […]

Rebeka Uwitonze was born in Rwanda with curled and twisted feet, which meant she had to crawl or be carried to get around. At nine years old, she gets an offer that could change her life. A doctor in the U.S. might be able to turn her feet. But it means leaving her own family […]

Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one […]

After Breda Moriarity gets caught stealing one too many times, Breda’s mom sends her to Ireland—a place she has never been—to live with the grandfather she has never met. While Breda doesn’t want to be in this strangely beautiful land, she finally gets to meet her Granda, her mom’s father. He’s a grumpy farmer who […]

Most twelve-year-olds would be excited to fly to Austria to see their dad for the summer, but Becca is not like most twelve-year-olds. Suffering from severe anxiety, she fears that the metal detectors at the airport will give her cancer and the long international flight will leave her with blood clots. Luckily, she’s packed her […]

On a spring morning in 1986, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work – Chernobyl – has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who have always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad […]

The War That Saved My Life Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So, when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute, and she sneaks out to join him. So […]

The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from an impoverished city in Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as a 7th-grade assignment. Everyone in Caitlin’s class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or […]