Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England, struggling to cope with poverty and her mother's illness, and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his father is missing, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be of great help to each other.

Savannah Colbert knows she broke up with Tristan Coleman for the right reasons--most of all, to avoid killing him with her new vampire abilities. But even as Sav tries to come to terms with what she's becoming, and Tristan prepares to fight for the girl he loves, a reckoning is coming with forces beyond their control.

Kicked out by her mother, Sonny is staying at her friend Amy's house and using lies to try to control her out-of-control life, but when she begins talking online to a boy who has a crush on Amy, she finds herself caught up in one lie to many.

In 1757 England, clever but unschooled Thomas Rose helps the spirited Ling seek Belladonna, the horse she rode in the circus, and in their quest they meet painter George Stubbs who euthanizes animals to study their anatomy, but he assures them her horse is safe at a nearby estate.

Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.

Tripp, who plays guitar only for himself, and Lyla, a cellist whose talent has already made her famous but not happy, form an unlikely friendship when they are forced to share a practice room at their high school.

Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.

Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who is stalking them--and each other.

Four teenage girls from very different social cliques at their progressive Chicago high school become friends after forming a knitting club. The story of Scottie, Amanda, Bella, and Tay, who are drawn together by their love of knitting, which brings about a special friendship that makes dealing with high school much easier, is interwoven with knitting terms and lore, and funky projects and patterns.

Spring 2013 Kids' Indie Next List
For Ruby Pepperdine, the "center of everything" is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors in her donut-obsessed town of Bunning, New Hampshire, stargazing from the circle of her grandmother Gigi's hug. That's how everything is supposed to be—until Ruby messes up and things spin out of control. But she has one last hope. It all depends on what happens on Bunning Day, when the entire town will hear Ruby read her...