Sixteen-year-old Nicki is sent to stay at her grandfather’s cabin near the town of Punishment in the Mendocino Forest. As always, she hides her burn scars and keeps quiet about the mother who ran out on her. But soon after arriving, she begins to...

The Bean Books, 1 It’s not easy being Bean. Bean Donohue lives for her guitar, but her mom threw her out of the house during a snowstorm for singing. No way she’s going to get permission to go see The Grateful Dead at the Fillmore East...

The Altered Stones, 1 A princess, a pea, and a tower of mattresses. This is the sliver that survives of a story more nightmare than fairytale...  Maggie Rhodes, high school junior and semi-reformed stalker, learns the tale’s true roots after...