S. A Bodeen

When high school sophomore Mason finds a beautiful but catatonic girl in the nursing home where his mother works, the discovery leads him to revelations about a series of disturbing human experiments that have a connection to his own life.

Seventeen-year-old Livvy Flynn, a bestselling author of YA fiction, is kidnapped by a woman and her apparently manic daughter who have no intention of letting her go.

Amelia will stop at nothing to convince her parents to let her adopt a very special dog.

Robbie's last-minute flight back home to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters, and she and the only other survivor fight for their lives on a raft with no water, only a bag of Skittles to eat, and no sign of help on the way.

Emma and her father discuss what they will do when the new baby arrives, but they adjust their expectations when he is born with Down syndrome.

"It's up to Sarah Robinson to save her shipwrecked family from a time-traveling 'curator' of souls and a treasure-hunting criminal in Book 3 of the Shipwreck Island series"--

When a young Tanzanian girl gets a new baby brother, she finds a rock, which she names Eva, and makes it her baby doll.

Children make terrible pets: Lucy, a young bear, meets a charming little boy in the forest. When she brings him home, her mother cautions her "children make terrible pets." All the world: The story follows a circle of family and friends over the course of a day and shows the importance of all things great and small in our world. Crow call: Liz and her father, who has been away at war far longer than she can remember begin their journey to reconnect. Elizabeti's...

A collection of five stories about families, including "Knuffle Bunny," "That New Animal," "Three Cheers for Catherine the Great," "Five Creatures," and "Elizabeti's Doll."