"Charlie Wilde knew her life would change forever when her family moved from the city of Chicago to the suburbs of Arizona-and that was before she found the bracelet. After putting it on, she notices odd things start to happen. Suddenly Charlie seems to have the speed of a cheetah and the strength of an elephant-and that's just the beginning. She would be thrilled about her transformation if she had any idea how to use the device or control her amazing...

Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.

Half-Navajo, half-white sisters Tess and Gaby are separated when Gaby drops out of college to join the army. Now as Gaby is deployed to Iraq, she asks Tess to care for Blue, the spirited horse that Tess dislikes. Tess struggles with her identity and with missing her sister, and she decides to spend the summer with her grandmother at sheep camp where tragedy strikes.

When her mother takes a job on a guest ranch in Arizona, twelve-year-old Leeann hopes to be able to ride whenever she wants, but it takes her own perseverance and the help of new friends, including the mother of a handicapped child, to win over the ranch's crusty wrangler.