Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there...

They say Maniac Magee was born in a dump. They say his stomach wasa cereal box and his heart a sofa spring. What's truth, what's myth? It's hard to know. But when Jeffrey Lionel Magee wanders into

An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.

Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.

Left orphaned and alone shortly after her French family arrives in the New World, young Marguerite Ledoux becomes an indentured servant and must survive the dangers of hostile Indians, the bitter, hungry winter of 1743, and the people in Maine who treat her with suspicion because she is a "foreigner."

In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.