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Friendships are forever. Love knows no bounds. The supernatural graces the everyday in unexpected ways. These themes have made Alice Hoffman a cherished best selling author across the country.

When eighth grader and aspiring journalist Indigo breaks an important story, exposing an unfair school policy, she's suddenly popular for the first time. The friends who've recently drifted away from her want to hang out again. Then Indigo notices that the school's disciplinary policies seem to be enforced especially harshly with students of color, like her. She wants to keep investigating, but her friends insist she's imagining things.

Every queen knows that in order to find out if a princess is REAL, one must send the "alleged" princess to bed on a magnificent pile of mattresses, slip in a pea, and see how she sleeps. But when the royal kitchen is fresh out peas, the queen tries a peanut instead.The princess turns out to be as real as her food allergies. This humorous tale inspires, and educates children with allergies, as well as those who live in, and around food sensitive kingdoms

New school, new town, new life: 16-year-old Nicole Caulfield is about to find out the hard way that home can be a four-letter word. When her family moves the summer before her senior year, Nicole thinks her life is over. Fall Daze is a novel about a lonely teenager, an unlikely friendship, and finding joy despite great loss.

Kinzie’s sister, Sidney, tells her a secret. Kinzie’s from Jupiter, and her space parents will return for her on her seventh birthday. That’s only three days away! Then, she’ll have to return to Jupiter to live with her space parents.

Aura Corinne Speltzman has two problems: the kids at school and the sudden disappearance of her only friend, an invisible zebra named Harold. But everything flips upside-down when Aura's new best-friend-to-be arrives on a thunderbolt in the middle of the night. Squinting through the storm from her bedroom window, Aura watches a family drop out of the lightning into the empty house across the yard.