The Name I Kept Fifteen-year-old Tomas Bennett is known throughout his small English village as the polite, well-spoken boy who always does the right thing. He dresses neatly, earns top marks, and never causes trouble. To everyone else, he seems to have the perfect life. But behind closed doors, everything is different. With his father away serving in the military and his mother's drinking spiraling out of control, Tomas spends every day trying to keep his family from falling apart. He believes that if he's perfect-if he never complains, never makes mistakes, and never asks for help-he can somehow fix the people he loves. When his best friend, Alfie, begins to notice that Tomas's carefully crafted smile is hiding something much deeper, the truth finally comes to light. Forced to face a future he never imagined, Tomas learns that real strength isn't found in silence, and that healing begins the moment you let someone stand beside you. Heartbreaking, hopeful, and deeply moving, The Name I Kept is a coming-of-age novel about friendship, family, resilience, and discovering that asking for help is one of the bravest things a person can do.

When five teenagers who are obsessed with the past discover a mysterious record hidden inside an antique store, they find a warning written on the back: DON'T PLAY THIS RECORD. Of course, they do. At first, everything seems normal. The music is beautiful, the record plays perfectly, and nothing seems out of place. But when the final note fades away, Charlotte, Pete, Rich, Julie, and Penny discover they are no longer in their own time. They have been transported to 1963. Now, the group must figure out how to survive in the decade they always dreamed about while searching for a way home. Along the way, they meet Sandra, a girl from the 60s who joins their unexpected adventure, and they discover that the mysterious record may hold more secrets than they ever imagined. But time has a way of changing people. As months turn into years, friendships grow stronger, feelings begin to change, and the line between the past and the present starts to disappear. When they finally return home, they face the biggest mystery of all: How can they explain disappearing for years... without aging a single day? The record was never meant to be played.. ..

𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔, 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒅𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒅-𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔. 𝑻𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓'𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 (𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔) , 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔, 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒏𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑, 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅. 𝑨𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒑𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒔, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓. 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕

Colin and the Split Custody After Colin's mom dies, five-year-old Colin and his sisters run away, hoping they can somehow stay together. But when they're found, everything changes. The siblings are placed into foster care, where they meet a kind woman who eventually decides to adopt them. For the first time in a while, Colin starts to believe that maybe things can finally be okay. But before the adoption can happen, Ashley grows out of foster care. Then Leela gets sick-and Colin loses her too. Now it's just Colin, his new "Mom," and Brock, the man Colin used to call Dad. Colin has stopped calling him Dad. To Colin, he's just Brock now. As Colin grows older, he starts building a life of his own. He makes friends, gets a girlfriend at school, and begins to settle into what feels like a normal life. But Colin doesn't know that his life is about to get a lot more interesting.....