When the young girl washes up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved into her belly. Stolen. Claire had had a son. She was supposed to forget about him, but that was impossible. When he was taken from their community, she knew she had to follow. And so her journey began. But here in this wind-battered village Claire is welcomed as one of their own. In the security of her new home,...

A little elephant tries out different spots around the house, until he finds the perfect place to play - near his mother.

Laura Bartone, now in her fifties, is forced to face unpleasant truths from the past when her troubled sister Caroline calls on the eve of a family reunion and asks to meet with her and their brother to discuss the abuses she believes she suffered at their hands of their emotionally distant mother.

Gr 4-7-A little "piece of heaven" is found in a swept-dirt backyard in New York City. Mahalia Moon lives with her mother and her 15-year-old brother, Otis. On her 13th birthday, she is presented with a thesaurus, a treasured gift from her mother. She answers an ad for a yard helper and meets Jackson, a music teacher, who is hesitant to hire her because he needs someone considerably stronger to clean up his yard in time for his adult daughter's visit....