Karen Rivers

Eleven-year-old Kammie reflects on her life as she fights claustrophobia while waiting to be rescued from a well she fell into while trying to impress some mean girls.

When sixteen-year-old Elyse Schmidt and her crush, Josh Harris, are the sole survivors of a plane crash, she believes that everything is perfect and their love story is meant to be, but she finds that fate is not always what you expect it to be.

Twelve-year-old Mischa "Ish" Love's longtime dream has been to someday live on Mars, but when she collapses on the first day of seventh grade, Ish receives a diagnosis which threatens her future plans.

Three years ago JC (aka Sharkey) saw his best friend fall off an unfinished Manhattan skyscraper. Suicide, or accident? He's spent the past years withdrawing from his friends, obsessively watching documentaries, and texting his dead friend. This year Sharkey is forced to spend the summer processing his grief on an abandoned beach resort island in Canada where his dad is the caretaker. There he meets Kelby, a girl who might help him recover his voice--...

Twelve-year-old Natalia Rose Baleine Gallagher dreams of seeing whales on the beach near her new home, and is consumed with the prospect that her mother who abandoned her as a child loves and misses her, and wants Nat to find her.

Zara is really close to her brother, Axel. Not just the usual brother-sister close, but so close that she can actually see his thoughts. It's a little weird, even for twins. Then, after she has a horrible accident, Zara can see what everyone is thinking. Her mother. Her best friends. Even total strangers. At first it's really pretty cool. Who doesn't want to know what everyone's thinking about them? But Zara can't turn off her strange new power, so...