After moving to a coal-mining town, Kit traces his family history and his own growth while confronting Askew, a boy who plays a game called Death, and the memories of his grandfather’s mining past. Ghosts of the past and present friendship overlap throughout the novel.

In the darkness of the mines, a boy meets his family’s memory anew.

Taken by her estranged father to South Africa, where her sister was murdered, Berry faces family rupture and the possibility of reconciliation while carrying anger and grief. The short novel condenses sorrow and the possibility of reconnection into a tight form.

A girl carrying stones on her chest travels with the weight of what has been lost.

When class outcast Christopher Creed disappears, Torey begins to follow the rumors around town and the guilt that his friends carry. The mystery of the disappearance and the atmosphere of bullying grow steadily more unsettling.

The absence of a missing boy brings the town’s secrets to the surface.

Georgia’s diary-style monologue races through love, failure, and self-disgust with humor. School life, crushes, and family annoyances spin together at a quick pace.

Love and failure alike are written straight into the diary.

Fourteen-year-old Shawn, who has severe cerebral palsy, carries a rich inner life that those around him do not recognize while he faces the fear that his father may be planning to end his life. The gap between consciousness and body sustains a quiet tension throughout.

Inside the boy who cannot move, the world turns more vividly than anyone realizes.