Diana G. Gallagher

Wanting to start dating at the same time as her two best friends, ninth-grader Sam begins secretly seeing the handsome Kyle Jameson, even though her father has forbidden her to date until she is sixteen.

When Sabrina's mischievous Aunt Vesta throws a real witch's party, Sabrina's rival, Libby, leaves her own tame halloween party to go it. She almost discovers the truth about Sabrina and blows her cover.

I’m thirteen, and I have a complicated life. Things get more complicated when I head off to camp for a week. I have to convince the camp staff that I have what it takes to become a junior counselor—and that means passing the swimming test. But I also have to:1. Watch out for pesky Nick Wright, the seven-year-old kid who tries to ruin everything2. Keep Anna, the bossy popular princess, from making my life miserable3. Beware of bugs, creepy crawlies, poison ivy, and things that go bump in the night4. Help my best friend, Monica, get over her fear of horses5. Have a good time—after all, it’s my last year of camp!

Claudia is super excited because her family is getting a pool! But her tree house tree needs to be cut down to make room for the new pool. Claudia has so many happy memories in the tree house. How can she leave it behind? Stuck between the past and a pool, what's a girl to do?

Monica is already nervous about riding in her first horse show, and when she finds out that Rory is betting on her performance it only increases the pressure she feels.

Nothing can prepare criminal attorney Bennie Rosato for her new client, Alice Connolly, accused of murdering her lover, a highly decorated police detective. Connolly, who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Bennie, tells the astonished lawyer, "Pleased to meet you. I'm your twin." But Bennie grew up an only child. She doesn't have a twin.Or does she?Bennie takes the case and plunges into the mystery of the murder, as well as the secret of her own identity. Not until the verdict is in will she finally learn the truth.

Squirrel, a stray puppy, tells her life story, from her nurturing mother and brother to making her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal.

Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid working for a wealthy woman in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India and arrives at “Happiness House” full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family’s debt – then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave. Lakshmi’s life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother’s words – “Simply to endure is to triumph” – and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision – will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life? Written in spare and evocative vignettes, this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.

Sabrina is down on her luck and when she uses a magic spell to make a real lucky charm, her life spins out of control.