Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.

Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.

Twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.

Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.

Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies, John Henry and Brer Rabbit must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.

This fantasy novel follows two children, Pong, a boy who escapes the prison he was born in, and Nok, the prison warden’s daughter who has become a warrior. As Nok tries to track him down, Pong discovers how the rich of Chattana thrive while the poor struggle, and he and his friend Somkit band together to bring justice.

Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA’s highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.

When Chase returns to middle school after falling off the roof and losing his memory, he learns that the person he was before the amnesia is not someone he likes.

A year after her mother’s death in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.

A Cuban American boy must use his secret ability to communicate with animals to save the inhabitants of his town when they are threatened by a tule Vieja, a witch that transforms into different animals.

Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after noticing how strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.

With a new sibling (her fourth) on the way and a big piano recital on the horizon, Dominican-American Ana Maria Reyes tries to win a scholarship to a New York City private school.

Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding wealthy classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team, and she begins to speak out.

To save heavily polluted Earth and his ailing mother, eleven-year-old Hurricane must travel to magical worlds aboard a giant, winged tiger to rescue the wind and other elements.