Count Dracula's daughter, Mavis, is a lot like any other teenager: She wants to be taken seriously! So when her father has to leave Hotel Transylvania--the monsters-only hotel he built as a safe haven free of humans--Mavis thinks it's her big chance to prove to him that she can run the hotel all by herself. How hard can it be? Unfortunately for Mavis, Drac calls his sister, Mavis's Aunt Lydia, to watch over Mavis and the hotel while he's gone. Worse, Mavis mistakenly lures a human to the hotel.

As a group of refugees huddles together in a rubber dinghy, one of them uses his violin to weave their stories together and give them hope for freedom in the future.

"Pearl Harbor features real stories of that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 when Japanese planes executed a surprise attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. American Girl Nanea Mitchell shares her own experiences adjusting to the drastic changes to everyday life in Hawaii following the attack"--Amazon.

"After the death of her parents, Angel has a lot to get used to: a new home, a new family, a new school. The last thing she's interested in is making new friends. Until she meets Bavar--a strange boy who slips through the shadows, a boy who might understand her nightmares. But Bavar doesn't want to let anyone in. Everyone--and everything--in his enchanted house is already urging him to step up and protect the world from a magical rift and the fearsome monsters traveling through it, a responsibil

Struggling with her father's disappearance and her diabetes diagnosis, DeeDee meets River, her new neighbor with cochlear implants who embraces life and teaches DeeDee to love both the differences of others and her own.

Arthur Curry, the reluctant heir of Atlantis, is recalled to the underwater kingdom when the king of Atlantis declares war on the surface world.

Astrid, who spends her days sledding down the hillside of her Norwegian mountain village to visit her curmudgeonly godfather, befriends a new family and a mysterious woman with an unexpected identity.

"On the night that Aunty dies, the raggedy witches come for Mup's family. Pale, cold, and relentless, the witches will do anything for the tyrannical queen who has outlawed most magic and enforces her laws with terror and cruelty -- and who happens to be Mup's grandmother. When witches carry off her dad, Mup and her mam leave the mundane world to rescue him. But everything is odd in the strange, glittering Witches Borough, even Mam. Even Mup herself. In a world of rhyming crows, talking cats, an

Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.