Six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed. There, in the room they dub the ARTT Room (short for "A Room to Talk"), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them -- from a father recently gone missing to racial profiling, fears of deportation, and a deep yearning for family history and a sense of belonging.

A point guard for his school basketball team, Pedro decides to run for class president, but his running mate, Ned, who happens to be the most popular boy in school and Pedro's teammate, does not appreciate the competition.

In order to heal after his mother's death, Sal learned how to meditate. But no one expected him to be able to take it further and 'relax' things into existence. Turns out he can reach into time and space to retrieve things from other universes.

Jaxon really doesn't want to spend the day with the mean old lady his mother calls Ma -- until he realizes she isn't actually his grandmother and she is a witch! A witch who is in the middle of an important job: moving three baby dragons out of Brooklyn and into a magical world where they can survive. And she needs Jaxon's help. Before he knows it, Jax and his friends Vikram and Kavita have broken the only two rules Ma gave him about dragons. (Keeping...

The trip to Australia Rafe has won starts badly, but after connecting with a group of misfits he finds a way to do what he does best--create mayhem.

Ryan has a lot on her mind. Her dad has a new job but money is still tight. That means moving to a new house and dad working the night shift. With the fourth-grade talent show coming up, Ryan wonders what talent she can perform on stage.

"Everyone assumes Gus is a baseball guy. But this year Gus is more excited about basketball than any other sport he's every played. This isn't going to be the season Gus expected though, because their team is getting a new player--and she just happens to be one of his best friends. No one else on the team has a problem with a girl playing point guard--so Gus can't figure out why he's having such a hard time accepting it. And to make matters worse,...

"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal- if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller,...

In her second year at Arcanum Training Institute, Ella grapples with fame, unearths a perilous school secret, and faces a mysterious magical illness outbreak, prompting her, alongside Brigit and Jason, to clear her name, while working tirelessly to safeguard the Marvellian realm from impending chaos.

"11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets ... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not...