Caroline B Cooney

The tragedy of Flight #116 will be life-altering - for those who survive. Seventeen-year-old Patrick is a junior EMT, fully qualified to deliver babies and give CPR. But in high school, he still needs a hall pass to leave class, which, in his estimation, is ridiculous. Also ridiculous is the fact that he can't be a full-time EMT yet. He needs a way to show everyone he's an adult, like the cops and paramedics he admires. Heidi's family owns the Dove...

As a child prepares for bed, a parent offers a wide variety of hugs, including a bear hug, a duck hug, and a whale hug.

Janie Johnson has been on an emotional roller-coaster ride ever since she saw her face on the side of a milk carton. At first she thought the people she called Mom and Dad had kidnapped her. Then she learned they were only trying to protect her. Finally, she had to get acquainted with another whole new family. Now Janie's two families have made peace. But just as her life returns to normal, her Connecticut father suffers a stroke. With her mother...

In this riveting and emotional conclusion to the thriller-romance Janie series, which started with The Face on the Milk Carton, all will be revealed as readers find out if Janie and Reeve's love has endured, and whether or not the person who brought Janie and her family so much emotional pain and suffering is brought to justice. Includes the bonus short story "What Janie Saw"

The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.

Spirited and pretty, Anaxandra is playmate to King Nicandor's crippled daughter, Callisto, until pirates attack Nicandor's small Greek island kingdom and slay everyone except Anaxandra. When Sparta's King Menalaus comes to investigate, Anaxandra assumes the identity of Princess Callisto to avoid becoming a slave. But Menalaus' beautiful half-goddess wife, Helen, doubts the girl's story. Worse, Helen is about to join forces with the Trojan prince Paris....

This day has been absolutely perfect for 16-year-old Sophie Olivette. She got an A+ on her first speech ever, whipped the history exam, and played awesome field hockey. She can hardly wait to tell Dad. But after school, he has an announcement of his own: he has found a new true love and is divorcing Mother. Suddenly Sophie feels like she is the only grown-up in the house. Dad's girlfriend is a younger woman-in fact, she is Sophie's older sister's...