Homeless after her father skips town, leaving her to deal with debt collectors, high school student Nanami Momozono naively accepts when a man she helps offers her his home. Unknown to her, along with the house, which is actually a shrine, she inherited his duties as a local deity, and she is suddenly faced with responsibilities and dangers she does not understand.

Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.

Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.

"Through the Wormhole! After Steve and Zombie accidentally launch a prototype display rocket and get sucked through a wormhole, they are happy to land safely back in the Overworld. However, nothing is like its supposed to be. Zombie's dad is organized, his mom is scatterbrained (without the brain), Zombie is allowed to stay up all day, and the humans are scaring the mobs! Could they be in... a parallel universe?! And, will they ever get home, or will...

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.