Nancy Garden

While writing a term paper on vampires, twelve-year-old Alexander finds himself falling under the spell of Dracula and his family of vampires who are operating a funeral parlor in Massachusetts.

This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. This book is so truthful and honest, it has been banned from many school libraries and even publicly burned in Kansas City.

Summer on her Maine island is enlivened for eleven-year-old Allie when she befriends Melanie, a new girl with hidden talents and a family secret that her mother is trying to hide.

When the cows on his grandparents' Vermont farm are dying and the vet can't determine the cause, young Sherlock Holmes fan Brian enlists the aid of two new friends, Mumbles and Darcy, to solve the mystery.

While trying to come to terms with her own lesbian feelings, Jamie, a high-school senior and editor of the school newspaper, finds herself in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health education curriculum.

A collection of twenty of the Brothers Grimm's best-loved tales, including The goose girl, Rapunzel, and The six swans.

Seventeen-year-old Gillian, finding that the thieves who broke into her family's vacation house are two young runaways terrified of being sent back to their abusive parents, decides to help them hide out from the authorities.

Examines the history and legends of the "undead" creatures who have reportedly roamed the earth since ancient times, sucking the blood of the living.

Twelve-year-old Frankie discovers horrifying evidence that her younger brother Pig is experimenting with shapeshifting into a dangerous animal.

Shortly after her mother's death, 13-year-old Melissa goes to live with her grandmother in a small New Hampshire town which is experiencing an odd unending winter.

Like himself, Paul thinks Jenny is just another misfit looking for a place in the world, until he realizes that she has little chance of finding it.

When she starts middle school, eleven-year-old Holly decides to become sophisticated and feminine, change her name to Yvette, and hide the fact that her two moms are lesbians.