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One day Denise gets a surprise package in the mail. She opens it up and finds a mirror with all sorts of elaborate woodwork around it. She thinks it is for her mother who collects antiques, but it is addressed… Continue Reading →

Lila moves to northern Montana with her parents. Her father is a crime novelist. But the story she finds in the newspaper on the doorstep sounds far more wild than any of his tales. Apparently a young man and woman,… Continue Reading →

Sandy and her parents are opening a vintage clothing shop in Idaho Falls on her seventeenth birthday. Her parents sell clothes from the 1950s, and their house is decorated that way, too. Her bedroom walls are covered with vintage movie… Continue Reading →

Laura has just turned seventeen — in a New Orleans orphanage. This is her last chance to find parents. Someone named Bienville wants to adopt her. But who are they? They look elegant and well-dressed, but they are as old… Continue Reading →

Tess has just been forced to move to Tucson from Los Angeles against her will because her father works for the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. She feels out of place and wants to go home as she listens to coyotes… Continue Reading →

Louise takes out her binoculars and studies the face of the huge snow-capped peak outside her cabin. She spies a black dot that seems to move. Sure enough it turns out to be a person. Her parents have gone to… Continue Reading →

Ginger is the co-captain of the high school rafting team only because she lost all to the bully Alisal who has the biggest muscles and the most irascible temper in the school. But then why does she give in when… Continue Reading →