While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world.

Second-grader Freddy hates being the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school play.

Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.

When her father loses his job, seven-year-old, second grader Ramona Quimby thinks of ways to deal with the many problems that develop. The family routine is upset during Ramona's second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

After her father loses his job and she finds out that her parents have lied to her, fifteen-year-old Ames feels betrayed enough to become involved with a criminal who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

After his younger brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge on the person he holds responsible.

Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks she's having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she does keep running into past and future versions of herself as she explores the urban ruins of Philadelphia. Or maybe she's finally waking up to the tornado that is her family, the tornado that six years ago sent her once-beloved older brother flying across the country for a reason...

Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.

Ravi spends summer vacation with his cousins sharing in all their favorite activities, including eating ice cream.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text show how the guiding hands of a family are always there to love and nurture a child, from birth to the first day of school.