A girl finds a baby duckling, and discovers that love is taking care of something that needs you, and also knowing when to let it go.

Ignatius Brother Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.

When he is called to the principal's office, George hurries to explain that other people were to blame for the many things that went wrong during the day, from his late arrival to the escape of some mice.

Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the back wall--and all Cameron wants to do is to conquer the...

When young Pearl, a mermaid, becomes caretaker of a single grain of sand, she discovers that performing even the smallest task well can transform the world.

Reaching a compromise with her parents when they say she is too young to attend a concert alone, Mia discovers that she is being cyberbullied on social media and teams up with her fellow Cupcake Club members to discover who is behind the attacks.

"A young girl takes action against ocean pollution in a timely story with unique plastic-waste diorama art"--

"Cat likes to work in the garden digging, planting seeds and growing vegetables. Puss doesn't appear to see the point in gardening-she likes to be in the house sitting around drinking tea. But Puss really likes to eat delicious food, so when Cat makes a feast with her harvest, Puss wants to share"--

Almost-thirteen-year-old Naomi receives a mysterious package containing a tiny clay Golem that obeys her every command, and she is unprepared for the chaos he creates when she sends him away with instructions to save the world.

When Ms. Alex is called away from the classroom, she leaves Yasmin in charge, but the other children just ignore her and start acting silly and noisy--until Yasmin thinks up a way to motivate them to finish the math assignment, quietly.