Maya is looking forward to a summer full of cooking and mixing in the kitchen, but when her dad's girlfriend registers her for culinary summer camp, she soon learns she is the only human at a camp full of vampires.

Donner Lake is famous for its dazzling waters, dramatic mountains, and the travelers trapped there long ago who did unspeakable things to survive. But for lonely Nora Sharpe, Donner was where a girl named Grace glided into her life one night and explodedher world. After that, every summer, winter, and spring break, Nora, her brother, Wesley, the enigmatic Grace, and their friend Rand left behind their real lives and reunited at Donner Lake. There,...

A young girl discovers a new way of life when she is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer.

"Phoebe Howell and her best friend, the dazzling unicorn Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, have all kinds of exciting things planned for the summer. Their adventures include constructing a secret clubhouse with Phoebe's friend Max (enlisting the help of some magic pixies along the way) and preparing for a trip to Marigold's unicorn family reunion. Along the way, readers will meet all kinds of new characters, learn what magic spells are best avoided, and...

"A raw and courageous memoir of the 1948 war and its aftermath and searing personal journey to uncover the suppressed traumas, facts, and myths that undergird the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict When author Linda Dittmar stumbles upon the ruins ofan abandoned Palestinian village, she is faced with a past that sits uneasily with her Israeli childhood memories-and the history she was raised never to question. Tracing Homelands is an intimate,...