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Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.

When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.

"After the death of her mother, Lydia moves in with her aunts and learns to find a new family of inspiring women and loving dogs"-- Publisher.

While recovering from an attack that leaves him without his memory, gay teenager Kane Montgomery stumbles into a world where dreams known as reveries take on a life of their own, and it is up to Kane and a few unlikely allies to stop them before they spillover into the waking world. Kane Montgomery was found half-dead in the river. He has no memory of what happened, and why his life seems so different now. The entire world feels off, reality itself...

Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.

When Gary Lasch, a Greenwich, Connecticut doctor, is murdered, his wife Molly goes to prison despite her claims of innocence. After Molly's release, Fran Simmons, an old schoolmate and investigative reporter for a television series, promises to help Molly find the real killer.

Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.

Ellis has her senior year perfectly planned: focus on her Columbia journalism application and lay the groundwork for her future career. But her plans are upended when her parents separate, and she's forced to move from New York City to Bramble Falls, Connecticut, with her mom. Though the town is charming, it's full of distractions, including Cooper Barnett, her former best friend and first kiss who now keeps his distance. Ellis is swept into the town's...

The reader assists Jane and Michael in determining whether a spooky stone house is really cursed. By choosing specific pages, the reader determines the outcome of the plot.

The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.