A boy awakens, blindfolded, with no memory of even his name, but soon meets Lord Umber, an adventurer and inventor, who calls him Happenstance and tells him that he has a very important destiny--and a powerful enemy.

In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.

"Some friendly dinosaurs must help a lost egg after it's blown out of its nest. But if they are to reunite the little egg with its true parents, they must first discover what kind of dinosaur lies inside"--

Mia May seem like the luckiest girl ever, but the truth is, Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: Preparing for her nerve-racking entree' into Genovian society, stogging through the congestion unique to Manhattan in December, and avoiding further smoohes from her hapless boyfriend, Kenny. For Mia, being a princess in love in not the fairy tale it's suppose to be... or is it?

"When Padmé Naberrie, 'Queen Amidala' of Naboo, steps down from her position, she is asked by the newly-elected queen to become Naboo's representative in the Galactic Senate. Padmé is unsure about taking on the new role, but cannot turn down the request to serve her people. Together with her most loyal handmaidens, Padmé must figure out how to navigate the treacherous waters of politics and forge a new identity beyond the queen's shadow"--

Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don't be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up. Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to see her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day -- a perfect day Justin doesn't remember the next morning....

While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.

A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar-a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey-she felt overcome with...

"Alma has everything she needs, except answers to her questions. Her mother won|t tell her why her beloved stepfather, Adam, is suddenly gone this summer. Or about life in Portugal, where her parents met. Not even about her father, who Alma cannot find, no matter how many graveyards she searches with her best friend, Julia. Then Alma|s mother shocks her by moving them both to Lisbon so Alma can fall in love with the vibrant city where her father grew...