When Can I Go Back to School (Big Little Hearts, #1)
by Anna Friend
When an elderly man agrees to let twelve-year-old Hummer train his Arabian horse for a competitive trail ride, it is the one bright spot in her difficult life living with a mentally ill mother and a father who won't recognize the problem.
What's Wrong With My Mommy?
by Cassandra Colon and Jennice Colon
Callie Morgan has long lived choked by the failure of her own lungs, the result of an elusive pulmonary illness that has plagued her since childhood. A childhood marked early by the drowning death of her mother--a death to which Callie was the sole witness. Her father has moved them inland, away from the memories of the California coast her mother loved so much and toward promises of recovery--and the escape of denial--in arid, landlocked air.
Her mother is ill, her father can't cope and everybody expects Gemma to sort things out. Even her role in the school play is in jeopardy. Torn between her family and her dreams, will she find the strength to do the right thing? And is the right thing for her the best thing for her family?
When Caitlyn meets Shayne, she is immediately drawn to his haunted eyes, even though her best friend, Sophia, warns her to stay away from him because he might be contagious. Then, Caitlyn finds herself pitted against her own thoughts in a desperate race to escape the darkness that wants to swallow her whole. To distract herself while Sophia has gone on holiday to a sunny beach, Caitlyn creates Hannah in a popular online virtual world. Caitlyn does everything in her power to pull Hannah into t...