K.A. Holt

Quiet, artistic Javi has just moved to Florida when a giant hurricane that shares his name heads toward the coast, and he rides out the storm with his mom, his teacher and her cat while worrying about his grandfather.

Grieving her older brother Benito, Ben Y types messages to him in an old chat room, until replies that seem to come from his ghost start exposing her secrets, while a new principal cracks down on the dress code and the school paper.

Ben Bellows fails the state language arts test and gets stuck in summer school, where he and three classmates discover they're divergent thinkers, not dumb.

Kate, a popular cheerleader with a controlling mother, and Tam, a tall and confident volleyball player, meet in middle school. They first misjudge each other through stereotypes, then realize they have feelings for each other.

Twelve-year-old Levi, the medically fragile baby brother from House Arrest, is tired of being treated as breakable by his mom and big brother. When his dad suggests boxing, he finds a sport that gives his energy and anger somewhere to go.

Timothy is sentenced to a year of probation after a desperate act meant to help his family, whose baby brother is seriously ill. He has to keep a journal and stay out of trouble while home life gets harder.

Middle schooler Kevin uses clever, cutting poems to torment his classmates, until the tables turn and he becomes the target.

At a middle school where humans, zombies and chupacabras don't mix, a haiku-writing zombie named Loeb falls for a human girl, told entirely in haiku.