Kelly Easton Books in Order

Fourteen-year-old Kristin records adolescence in a diary while her family struggles with the damaged brother returned from Vietnam. Against the upheaval of the early 1970s, she searches for meaning in changing friendships, family tensions and her own uncertain future.

Aaron helps at his family’s pet shop while coping with a difficult tutor and changes threatening his neighborhood. When animals begin disappearing, he investigates a mystery tied to the people and places he wants to protect.

A school project about the Birdman of Alcatraz leads Aaron Betts to an ex-convict and a fresh mystery. When a turtle bearing a painted map arrives at his family’s pet shop, he and his friends encounter a criminal scheme.

In Depression-era America, twelve-year-old June travels with her tightrope-walking father and preacher grandfather. Life among revival meetings and circus performers tests her faith, while family secrets complicate her hopes for a home and a future of her own.

After his parents die in a car accident, seventeen-year-old Adam sets out on foot toward his Rhode Island home. Grief and shock shape a journey in which fractured memories gradually help him confront what happened and imagine continuing.

Lin discovers a gift for second sight and turns to her Japanese grandmother for guidance. Through meditation and unsettling visions, she begins to understand how family history, inherited abilities and the possibility of love will shape her life.

After her father’s death and her mother’s remarriage, Chrissie moves to California and struggles to belong. Two new friends introduce her to witchcraft, offering rituals and companionship as she seeks confidence in a life she scarcely recognizes.

Seventeen-year-old Sage transforms her appearance to resemble a popular classmate and wins the attention of the boy she wants. But his controlling behavior and her best friend’s concern force her to question the identity she is constructing.

Ten-year-old Liberty dreams of escaping the house where her cruel parents keep her confined. Discoveries in her father’s secret laboratory give her extraordinary abilities and a chance to find freedom, friendship and the wider world she knows through books.