Book 2

While helping old Mrs. Bealer get ready to move from the decaying downtown of East Edge, twelve-year-old Cammi notices peculiar activity in the neighborhood and fears that her older brother Doug is involved in something bad.

Book 4

Eleven-year-old Charlie, distraught after the authorities take her away from her alcoholic mother, has only begun adjusting to life in a Christian foster home when her young foster sister is kidnapped.

Book 5

Twelve-year-old Alysha, an African American, is appalled that someone in her church would leave poison pen notes about a baby with AIDS, and is determined to find the culprit, while also facing more subtle forms of prejudice from her white friends, her cousin, and her new gymnastics coach.