Cindy Callaghan

Discovering a dusty cookbook of magical recipes, Kelly and her two best friends are surprised when their concoctions produce genuinely magical results and tempt them to consider stirring up trouble with their respective crushes. --

"Lucia 'Lucy' Rossi thought she was going to be a camp counselor for the summer, but, thanks to a very fortunate twist, she ends up in Rome, Italy, helping out at her aunt's restaurant, Amore Pizzeria. Lucy can't wait to see some ruins, eat all the gelato she can, and maybe say a few buongiornos to some cute Italian boys. But Lucy arrives to Italian trouble. Her aunt is in danger of losing her business, thanks to a flashy new pizzeria down the road...

In this hourly time-stamped, action-packed tween comedy of errors, Abby Gray, feeling weighed down by her secrets and lies, lets five balloons float into the sky with her deepest secrets attached to them in a desperate attempt to clear her conscience. Her relief is short-lived, though: the next day, those balloons start dropping one by one at her school, revealing Abby's innermost thoughts to both friends and frenemies and creating hilarious misinterpretations...

"When superstitious Meghan receives a chain letter from Ireland, she takes a shortcut in its directions, and soon finds herself in a streak of bad luck that she must travel to Ireland to break." --

"An apprentice witch ... reluctantly takes in three orphan children [in 1940s England]. Though her first spells create more laughs than magic, Miss Price and the children soon find themselves swept away aboard a fantastic flying bed"--Container.