The fiercest, most strangely shaped figures of mythology look like you might find them in a zoo-if any zoo could hold animals this dangerously powerful.
It's Halloween, and although sharing might be okay the rest of the year, on this day Harriet's determined not to share her treats with her little brother, Walt.
April Sinclair just wants what any normal thirteen-year-old would want: to disown her parents and obnoxious little sisters; to escape to summer camp ASAP with her two best friends, Billy and Brynn; and to make a good impression on Matt Parker, the hot new boy next door.
Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of their Baghdad neighborhood-when books, not bombs, ruled Mutanabbi Street.
When 10-year-old Sylvia Freeman moves to Wakeview, South Carolina, she's sure that her summer is going to be plain ol' boring-that is until she meets her 99-year-old neighbor, Miz Lula Maye.
