"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secrets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--

Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.

After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.

Thirteen-year-old Penelope, the secret author of macabre tales in "The Penny Dreadful, " Victorian London's bestselling magazine, investigates the mystery of a strange phenomenon occurring in the local insane asylum.

"Trump the dog lives with her owner Dr. Jeanie behind the Pet Vet Clinic. Trump is an Animal Liaison Officer and this time he helps a little kitten."--Publisher description.

Trump, the dog, helps Dr. Jeanie with sick animals at the Pet Vet Clinic. Diamond, the python escapes from a moving van and causes a panic throughout the town.

Granny decides to become an undercover reporter and is assigned a story on Shriners Hospitals for Children.

As Shreve Cannon's ability to absorb the memories of others has him teetering on the edge of insanity, he returns to the custody of the state of Arkansas, this time in a mental institution, but he must collect himself and find Jack, the Twelve-Fingered Boy, if he is to stop an unspeakable evil that is stirring in Baltimore.

Mandy and James are excited to help with a team of mustangs and a rock video, but must nurse the lead horse, Cougar, back to health after he develops a strange, life-threatening illness.

"When Amy meets the owner of a brand-new puppy at her mom's vet clinic, she agrees to help the woman train her new pet. Amy does such a great job, she starts getting calls from more puppy owners! Things go great for a while, but soon, Amy is in way over her head. She can't say no to a puppy in need and has taken on way too many clients! Amy barely has time for school or her friends in between all the puppies. Can she dig herself out of this hole before...