Contains two stories featuring the boisterous Ramona Quimby, including "Beezus and Ramona," in which four-year-old Ramona's imagination makes her a menace to everyone--especially her older sister, Beezus; and "Ramona and her Father," in which Ramona tries to help her dad when he loses his job and starts smoking too much.

The perennially bestselling author of a legion of occult thrillers tells the story of 16-year-old Cassie, who learns that the dark secret of her birth has also left her a legacy of strange powers.

Death comes to Earth in Pitt's form to learn about life from Hopkins and falls for his daughter.

Nights in Rodanthe: A middle-aged woman retreats to her friend's hotel for a weekend and forms a romance with a guest during a storm. The notebook: A wealthy young woman must choose between true love and a match her parents approve of. Message in a bottle: A reporter traces a lonely widower who wrote a heart-felt message, put it in a bottle, and threw it into the sea. A walk to remember: A popular high school student forms a special relationship...

Retells, in comic book format, Shakespeare's play about the exiled Duke of Milan who uses his magical powers to confront his enemies on an enchanted island.

When fifteen-year-old Rick's mother finally leaves for good, Ricki's absentee father steps in, taking Ricki with him as he chases bail "skips" across the country, but their fledgling relationship is tested as they pursue attractive, manipulative, seventeen-year-old Ian Burnham.

In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains...

Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called "the Goat," still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with brutality and blackmail.

In Portland, Oregon, between soccer games and beginning seventh grade, twelve-year-old Madison Kincaid and new classmate Jake try to track down her missing best friend, while also helping her attorney father solve a missing-persons case.

Yotsuba is trying her hand at drawing, but a few ruthless art critics could squash her dreams. A new love for gangster movies will tear her away from her artistic endeavors, when this green-haired girl-turned-goodfella uses her trigger-happy tactics to douse her doubtful neighbors. But when Yotsuba's water pistol runs out of ammo, our hugable thug learns that revenge is a dish best served dry.