Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.

Charlie faces his most dangerous adventure yet when the shadow from the Red King's portrait escapes. Strange things start to happen at Bloor's Academy. A mysterious force, however, is helping Charlie get closer to the truth about his father.

A sequel to Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor finds April unraveling family secrets, creepy legends, and mysterious identities when setbacks in her plans with Gabriel force her to fight on behalf of the orphans who have become her family.

An abridged version of the tale of Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, who is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

"Ivy Pocket arrives in London, protects the Clock Diamond, and realizes that her friend Rebecca may not be dead after all"--

An abridged version of the tale of ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

"Independent, stunning, and smart, Kell Jameson has the life she's always dreamed about. A partner at a tony Atlanta law firm that represents famous--if guilty-- clients, she's far from her days as a lonely orphan in rural Georgia. But one frantic phone call will bring her back to the place she's spent years trying to escape. The head of her childhood orphanage has been accused of murder, and Kell is her only hope for freedom. From the first moment...