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A survival adventure with hope at the core.
Thirteen-year-old Domiku watched his world crumble when a massive earthquake tore through his home in Port au Prince, Haiti, with his family trapped inside. Minutes later, a towering tsunami swept away everything he knew, including his six-year-old sister.

Wading through the wreckage, Domiku must begin a...

Just nine months after the devastating 7.0 earthquake, Candice is drawn back to Haiti to help restore clean water. This time she brings her twelve-year-old son, Jonah, and best friends, Will and Bree. As they work with a team to drill a well, villagers are mysteriously becoming deathly sick. Can they find the source before it devastates the...

In the remote hills of Guatemala, hope is not a familiar word. Rodrigo, Kristal, and Javier live in a one-room shanty with dirt floors, bamboo walls, and a rusty tin roof that leaks. At twelve, Rodrigo dreams of going to school but must work in the fields every day to help his family make a meager living. By striking a deal with his sick Mama,...

After a terrible accident that Diego Alverez thinks is his fault, he and his two sisters become orphans. Accepting his new role as man of the house, thirteen-year-old Diego takes a job as an ayudante, a helper on a bus. In the city, tensions mount when gangs demand money from bus companies in exchange for “protection” from other gangs. Those who...

My puppy raiser and best friend, twelve-year-old Zahra, has been training me to be a guide dog since I was a puppy. Her and Mama T and a few others. They say I’m learning fast and doing great. They say Ranger is a good boy. I love good boy. They say that soon we’ll go to school for advanced training. I can’t wait! It is my dream.

When Zahra said...

At STEM camp, on a once secret floating Cold War laboratory, twelve-year-old twins, Max and Maddie, discover the ElectroMagna isn’t just one of grandpa’s stories….it’s real. It’s dangerous. And it’s capable of destroying everything in its path. Not only must they rescue their missing grandfather with the cryptic clues he’s provided them, but...

Can a fortune cookie really change the world?

Seven-year-old Jena Cartright, better known as Drama Mama, is convinced that the fortunes inside fortune cookies always come true. The only problem? She has no idea how it works.

Her grandfather, the General, insists it's all just coincidence. Fortune cookies don't have magical powers.

...Or do they?

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Jena Cartright, better known as Drama Mama, a feisty seven-year-old who's absolutely convinced fortunes in fortune cookies come true. She cracks open a cookie containing two fortunes - a double whammy - and she sees the problem. She doesn't know how to make one fortune come true, let alone two!

Who is each fortune meant for? Her? The General? Or...