by Pnina Moed Kass (2004)
Sixteen-year-old Tomas Wanninger persuades his mother to let him leave Germany to volunteer at a kibbutz in Israel, where he experiences a violent political attack and finds answers about his own past.
Vicki Grove
Fifth-grader Carly's assignment to interview a reclusive, brooding classmate leads her to discover some of the events that have caused his antisocial and abusive family's negative impact on their Missouri farming community, and Carly's family in particular.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Life is never quite the same again for eleven-year-old David after the arrival of his new stepsister, a student of the occult.
Jennifer Moore-Mallinos
Describes childrens' anxieties and intent to help when he learns his father has lost his job. It is a tool for parents to use to help allay the fears and anguish that a child perceives their parents suffer when one has lost his or her job.
Susan Vaught
Eleven-year-old Footer and her friends investigate when a nearby farm is burned, the farmer murdered, and his children disappear, but as they follow the clues, Footer starts having flashbacks and wonders if she is going crazy like her mother, who is back in a mental institution near their Mississippi home. Eleven-year-old Footer and her friends investigate when a nearby farm is burned, the farmer murdered, and his grandchildren disappear, but soon Footer wonders if she's going crazy as her mother had. The plot contains profanity.