Set on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme describes the silly consequences of an old woman's fishy diet.

"When Morgan and Lewis receive a cryptic letter and a key from Mr. Lee, they get to see more of his life-like costume creations. Robots, aliens, and Sasquatches abound and the big question through it all is--what's real and what's pretending to be real?"-

Middle-schoolers Nico, Opal, Tyler, and Emma face a more dangerous threat and must uncover the whirlpool's origins, as well as those of that freaky "Thing in a Jar," while fending off paranormal investigators.

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," Rock's "My Abandonment," inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of his young protagonist, offers a riveting and unsettling account of a girl and her father who live off the grid.

After nine years in prison for attempting to murder the drunk driver who killed her son, Alice Kessler returns home to Gray's Island to reconnect with the son she left behind; when Alice's son Jeremy is wrongly accused of rape, Alice, aided by Colin McGinty, works to prove Jeremy's innocence.

In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth's crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought's so widespread that water is rationed. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years, and no freedom, except for an elite few. It's a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan, and she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest.

Middle-schoolers Opal, Nico, Tyler, Emma, and Logan find their friendships tested as never before when the townpeople panic, something cryptic surfaces from within the Darkdeep, and a newcomer arrives with an agenda.

"When crime-fiction writer Gabe Conaghan arrives on Solace Island, he is expecting merely to fulfill his father's request to inspect an estate. He's hardly prepared to meet stunning gallery owner Zelia Thompson or get wrapped up in her amateur sleuthing. Though the death of Zelia's friend and fellow gallery owner was declared a drug overdose, Zelia is sure the story is a cover-up for a murder. Enlisting Gabe's assistance, Zelia sets to work uncovering...

Follows Golden Sun, an Appaloosa horse, through several seasons as Little Turtle, a Nez Perce boy, raises and trains him then takes him along on a vision quest in hopes of saving his friend Pale Moon from serious illness.

Toba and his scientist mother move from Nigeria to sleepy Buckhead in the Pacific Northwest, where he and his newfound friends encounter a video game perfectly replicating ancient Benin, and they become embroiled in a vast conspiracy with connections to another world and an ancient evil.