NOW PUBLISHED BY SOURCEBOOKS FIRE! Sixteen-year-old Jackie Howard knows nothing about her new guardian Katherine Walter when she moves from New York to Colorado. After discovering that Katherine has twelve boys, Jackie fears that living in the Walter house isn't going to be easy. It's just icing on the cake that the boys look like models... Cover design by pizzazz-

Whitney Gordon will defend her family at all costs. If people shout names or say mean things just because she has two dads, well they can all go to hell. She's a popular teen girl just like all others out there, minus the fact she has a small devil for a sister, and two gay dads for a family. Life's complicated enough as it is, and Whitney's seems to get more messed up, when the school's bully and criminal, Rai Vega, finds out about a secret she has kept for years. How far will she go to protect her deepest secret?

“Like the howl of an accordion—half sorrow and half joy, wondrous and exquisite—these stories squeezed my heart.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of "The House on Mango Street" * In "Once More to the River," Erasmo Guerra writes a moving account of his boyhood on the Texas-Mexico border. An award-winning novelist and journalist, Guerra explores present-day political and cultural realities, and recounts the shattering loss his family suffered when his teenage sister was murdered. Told with lyrical prose and a reporter’s ear for the “Tex-Mex” language of the region, these stories capture the voices of South Texas. By turns humorous and haunting, powerful and tender, this collection is an intensely personal chronicle of tragedy and the triumph of survival.

The sisters are back! After all the drama last year, Haley's expecting - more like hoping - everything will finally settle down. Unfortunately, she couldn't be anymore wrong. With Michele in Australia, Haley is facing senior year on her own. But how can she decide her future when she's only just accepted the past? It soon becomes more than picking out the right colleges and saying goodbye to friends. Old memories resurface; new drama arises. All Michele and Haley need to know that, after Michele's accident, nothing could possible break their friendship. Right? Haley's got to get everything in order before the final day arrives, the speeches are made and the caps are thrown up in the air. (Sequel to Sisters) Teen Fiction #362 Finished: 23/12/15