«Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She’s thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog, Rain, a name with two homonyms (reign, rein)…When a storm hits their rural town, rivers overflow, roads are flooded, and Rain goes missing.»
«I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing…How odd, I thought: it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me for me to claim a life of my own.»
«Pacy Lin is ready for summer! But her parents have decided the family is going to visit Taiwan for a whole month. Taiwan? Pacy isn’t even sure if she knows where that is.»
«Freedom for one, freedom for all? That’s the question that burns in Isabel’s mind as she and Curzon forge on through chaos and fear toward the dream that’s kept them alive for so many years: freedom.»
«Kate’s humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.»