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One day, as Amanda sits practising her cello, a restless wind swoops inside her instrument. From that moment on, all sorts of unusual musical things occur as the wind directs Amanda's music-making. But then, Amanda begins to outgrow her little cello.

"Sophie loves her dog, Max. Max loves Sophie. But he also loves to dig. Can Sophie find a way to stop Max from digging up Mom's garden?"

Each summer day Mollie wakes up, waits for the sun to rise, and hopes that today the baby will be born. Sometimes while she waits, she feels the baby moving inside her mother's tummy and whispers, "Good morning."

The novel opens in August of 1941 when the world is at war with Germany and Italy and tensions between the Japanese and Caucasians are rising in their community. As the war overseas escalates, so do the tensions in the San Joaquin Valley where the Harmon's and Nishimura's live a...

"Egypt! What better place to break free of painful ruts and crippling memories of two disastrous first marriages? Megan, a blocked mystery writer, signs on for a tour of this ancient world of temples, pyramids and pharaohs, desperately needing to re-create herself in the aftermat...

"Working at his aunt and uncle's ranch in California is the last thing Scott wants to be doing over the summer. He can't play his on-line game, Tallinn's Quest, his cousin Emily looks down her nose at him and his uncle seems to hold a grudge that Scott can't quite figure out. T...

The farmer and his wife work hard all day with no time for rest. When a mysterious peddler gives their son Nathaniel a violin, the farmer sees no use in it. The sound Nathaniel makes is awful and there's no money for lessons, so Nathaniel practices and practices playing his violi...

Zoe has never let being in a wheelchair stop her from doing anything, but when her family moves to a remote village in northern Canada, she finds things harder that she anticipated. The snow makes it hard for her to get around, all her class-mates are into snow sports Zoe can’t j...

Melissa's vivid imagination leads her to great adventures - and a bold rescue of her Grandmother.She learned that sundogs would disappear if she smiled.

Through photographs, Alyssa Dixon imagines the past and the life of Deborah, a farm girl from Iowa in 1931. The photos reveal unsettling things about Deborah's family and Alyssa tries to find a way to help while dealing with her own problems at home in the present.

"Escaping her home routine for a few hours, 16-year-old Katie grabs her bike and leaves behind her cranky baby, her hyperactive brother and a struggling single mom. Flopping down in a field to rest, Katie brushes the branches of a willow shrub and falls into a dying world far in ...

When Lisa runs away from her home in Canada, her mother agonises over her own life, finding herself reliving the California of the 1960's.

"Connor Barclay is spending his Easter holidays on a cruise to Greece and Turkey. Awesome! True, his dad couldn't come and he has to share a tiny crowded cabin with his mum and bratty little sister. But he has his favourite computer game, Doppelganger, to while away any downti...