In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.

With the help of a very special pit bull puppy, twelve-year-old Hannah adjusts to moving from Michigan to California and makes friends, despite the birthmark that makes her self-conscious.

Stella gets a chance to audition for her favorite television show when she meets a casting director who thinks she is perfect for the role, so she rehearses her lines until she know the part by heart, but the audition does not go as planned.

Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.

Their destiny is to fix history. Their dream is to go home.

Living in a house that's actually a gateway between the past and present, the King siblings have to be ready for anything. It's a painful fact they discovered after moving to Pinedale eight days ago. Desperately trying to rescue their mother from an unknown time and place, brothers Xander and David have lunged headlong into the chaos of some of history's greatest—and

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The King family's new house isn't the only thing keeping secrets.

Pretending everything is all right when it's not is harder than it sounds. The Kings know that even if they told the truth about the bizarre happenings in their new home, no one would believe them. They're hyper-focused on rescuing their lost family member before anyone finds out what's going on.

Then a stranger shows up to take the house, and their options

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When Stella learns that her best friend Willa is moving away, she makes a wish and tries with a magic potion to keep her in Redwood City, California.

Twelve-year-old David and his family search for their kidnapped mother in the many different time period portals of their home, but when a stranger appears and tries to force them to sell the house, their desperation reaches new heights.

"Jeff is the new guy in school and the only one who can see Kimberlee, a ghost with a lot of (stolen) baggage. To help her move on, Jeff must return everything she stole when she was alive. But being Kimberlee's accomplice turns into more than he bargained for when his crush and the cops get involved"--

When thirteen-year-old Charlie compromises her values to help Lauren, one of the popular girls, cheat on a test, her identical twin sister, Sammie, is inadvertantly pulled into the mess.