Rick Hanski, a young soldier in Vietnam, bonds with Cracker, his bomb-sniffing dog.

Mariska could not be happier. Living an almost fairy‑tale life, she is popular, adored by her parents, and is engaged to be married to the most attractive man in her village. But her world is torn when war approaches the peaceful village of Bakshami. Mariska risks everything she has in order to search for her parents who left to negotiate and find peace. With a young warrior as her companion, she travels beyond the safety of her village. Together...

Reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps during World War II, a Japanese-American family renounces its American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing novel by the Newbery Medal-winning author of "Kira-Kira". Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima,...

Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.

Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.

When eleven-year-old Becca, a quadruplet, finds a sick piglet on the side of the road, her life is changed forever.