Aqua the mini-mermaid shares her favorite places at the beach with Pinkalicious and Peter, including the tide pool and the cove.

Stevie's love of sharks sees him respond to each of his mom's requests with a cheeky shark fact, from the fluoride teeth of Mako sharks to how Tiger sharks eat everything.

"Annie should be grateful to be back on Martha's Vineyard, running her inn and crafting her artisan soaps. But her recent trip to L.A. to see her novels turned into films has her fantasizing about a life in California. Annie knows her fiance, John, would never relocate. Yet somehow she can't stop imagining. Then John's daughter is diagnosed with a serious illness, rocking their world and sending John off-island to tend to her, alongside his ex-wife....

The wagon ride from town is so hazardous that Farmer Palmer, a pig, and Ebenezer, an ass, barely make it home again.

"Show a little maturity," he said, which I've doped out to mean: Pass all your courses, avoid detection in all crimes and misdemeanors, don't get pregnant. Celine's father has left her with these instructions. She's not too worried about the last two, but she'll fail English unless she rewrites her Catcher in the Rye essay. And she keeps being interrupted, especially by Jake, the neighbor's boy, who's been dumped on her for the weekend.

"When her horse show performance goes horribly wrong, Nina wonders if a Halloween ghost could be involved in this fourth book in a contemporary middle grade series in the tradition of Marguerite Henry's Misty of Chincoteague. Nina Peralt's boarding and lesson barn will be putting on a horse show this fall, and she can't wait to show off how well she and her pony, Breezy, have been doing lately! Bonus: the cute older brother of one of her fellow riders...

Jack and Louisa tell of his reluctant departure from New York City and Broadway stardom to live in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where neighbor Louisa, a "musical theater nerd," urges him to audition for a production of "Into the Woods."

"Hedgehog and tortoise are the best of friends. But they're not allowed to hug. Luckily there are lots of other ways to show someone you love them" -- Page [4] cover.

On the first day of kindergarten, Polka-dot uses the fix-it kit her grandpa has prepared for her to help her make a friend.

Follows Marguerite de Pruitt and her canine pal, Daisy, as they embark on a journey to save the world. I'm gonna tell you a story, and I'm gonna ask that you let me finish before you say anything. Here's the deal--on midnight of January 1st, 2000, the world ended. But it wasn't technology that killed it: It was magic. Now, years later, the Earth has transformed. Magic works (sort of). People are happy (sort of). But this new world isn't stable, and...