When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food. Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody's doorstep. Up to now, the twins have followed...

"Have you even seen a Gritchen in your kitchen? Dared to dance with the one-legged Zantz? Declined to dine with the Glub-Toothed Sline? You haven't? Well then, step inside--but only if you are ready to be amazed...by this most unusual bestiary of silly and scary creatures." --book jacket

"Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura’s Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery is gearing up for Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately someone has iced Baxter Malloy on his first date with Mel’s mother. Now Mom’s a suspect, and Mel and Angie need to find time around frosting to dig into the man’s shady past and discover who served him his just desserts." --publisher's website.

"Darika 'Rika' Lovelace is in trouble. The kind of trouble that sends her to her grandmother’s estate in Trinidad for the whole summer. But something about the island feels…different. As soon as she steps off the plane, strange things start happening! Rika meets a group of kids called Minders, who seem to have elemental powers. Even worse, she can sense jumbies lurking in the shadows. Needless to say, she wants a ticket home. But when the Minders...

David's pregnant. He's always wanted to have children, and being a stepfather for the past two years has been a great adventure. There'd even been a plan to start looking into adoption and turn their family of three into four. But now there's a bump, and David doesn't know what to do. He's spent years escaping the grip of his own body and burying the past-but there's no way he can hide from his history if he lets the bump get any bigger. It's not...

A boy helps his grandfather on the farm, showing the hen that follows them all that he can do.

Newly paired, Kate and Stephen are just getting used to one another when Kate begins to gain weight. With the authorities removing citizens showing similar symptoms, they try to conceal her condition while seeking help from a doctor willing to consult them off the record. When their world starting to crumble after hearing the doctor's words, they begin their secret plan to escape.