Sarah Crossan

Twelve-year-old Kasienka moves from Poland to Coventry, England, with her mother to search for her father, and at a new school where she has no friends, the swimming pool becomes the place she can breathe.

In 1846 County Mayo, sixteen-year-old Nell takes work as a scullery maid at the landlord's estate and falls for his English nephew and heir, even as the potato blight devastates her community.

Running from her violent father, Allison hides in a shed and becomes 'Toffee' to an elderly woman with dementia who mistakes her for an old friend.

Nicu, a Romanian immigrant, and Jess, who lives with violence at home, bond over community service and their painful pasts.

Joe goes to Texas for the summer to be near his brother, who is on death row for a crime he may not have committed.

Conjoined twins Tippi and Grace start at a real school for the first time and face a decision that could separate them.