"Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story. Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola's summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk. (The boat was barely on fire, for the record--and all the partygoers were just fine.) Luckily, this disaster of a summer has another thing in store for her:...

Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband’s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the...

"A crew of resourceful neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community. Includes a recipe and an author's note about the volunteering experience that inspired the book"--

Between working on the medieval project for third grade and helping move books and redecorate the children's section at the public library, Abby Spencer and her friends, the Book Bunch, have their hands full--but Mrs. Mackenzie has promised them a really special lunch as a reward.

Summer is almost gone, and third-grader Abby Spencer and her friends, the Book Bunch, are spending their time working on a play for the local public library, and visiting Abigail Flynn at the Evergreen Nursing Home.

Josie is timid at school, comfortable at home, and confident when she and her dog Clementine are volunteering at the pediatric ward of the local hospital; Oscar is acting out and in trouble at school, miserable at home, and forced to volunteer as a punishment; Gabby is popular at school, but her perfect life is threatened because she is hiding a dangerous medical condition -- but at the hospital the three children are brought together by Clementine...

George and his friends volunteer to serve dinner at a homeless shelter on Pay It Forward Day, but when George learns that his favorite movie star, Dirk Drek, will be in town that day, he wants to back out and go see his idol, instead.

"Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: How did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her community, just like her Mami does, she always makes sure she has a good answer to Mami’s question. In a story inspired by her own family’s desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and...

"Jeet is new to town and a little lonely. To combat this, he and his mom start volunteering at a local animal shelter. There, Jeet makes a new friend in a happy puppy, Fudge! Jeet's world is about to get a whole lot better. Kids and adults alike will delight in this level 2 emerging reader, the first in a series about a young Sikh boy, his 'yummy' sidekick puppy, and their adventures in volunteerism and play." --

Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.