Paula Fox

Ned fired the forbidden rifle just once, at a flickering shadow in the autumn moonlight. But someone -- a face, fleetingly seen staring at him from an attic window -- was watching. And when a one-eyed cat turns up at an elderly neighbor's woodshed, Ned is caught in a web of guilt, fear, and shame that he cannot escape -- until another moonlit night, come spring, brings redemption and surprising revelations.

Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive.

Fifteen-year-old Catherine and her father take their first joint vacation in Nova Scotia and finally get to know each other.

Eleven-year-old Lily has grown closer to her thirteen-year-old brother Paul during the spring their family has spent on the Greek island Thasos, until the unpredictable behavior of another American boy disrupts their lives.

Ten-year-old James, doted on by his three aunts, is haunted by the loss of his mother. He doesn't know where his mother is-only that she is sick and he has to live with his aunts in a shoddy city apartment. One day he skips school to go to his secret place, a deserted house where he is found by three teenage boys who force him to join their dognapping ring. What follows is a roller-coaster-like adventure story ride through the streets of New York...

A little boy who can't spell or ever seem to please his parents spends a week with an odd babysitter and makes a special friend.

Paul, who has felt a little left-out since the arrival of his brother seven years ago, thinks that no one will miss him if he doesn't attend his brother's birthday party.