It's hard to find a place for yourself when you're walking in the shadow of a school legend. That's the problem 15-year-old Laurel Quinn has faced every day of her school life. She loves her brother, Jack -- a jock, a brain, and one of the most popular guys in school -- but she's tired of being known only as his little sister. In an attempt to establish her own identity, Laurel becomes a reporter for the school paper. After months of invisible...

"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Lauren is worried what will happen when her new friends realize her brother is disabled."-- Moving to a new city and a new school is never easy. So Lauren is relieved when Callie, Treena and Maddy welcome her into their group. But then Lauren witnesses their reaction to a first grader in a wheelchair. That boy is her little brother, Will. But she's afraid that if she tells them, they may not want to...

Safira may have seen a ghost but her family is so wrapped up in her sister Mya's wedding she has no time to investigate, until her friend Trinity learns of the death of a girl also named Mya and suggests the ghost has an important message for Safira's sister.