A Snicker of Magic
by Natalie Lloyd | 
The Great Unexpected
by Sharon Creech | 
Beautiful Blue World
by Suzanne LaFleur | 
The Candymakers
by Wendy Mass | 
The Stranger
by Chris Van Allsburg | 
The Wretched Stone
by Chris Van Allsburg | 
The Ability
by M. M. Vaughan |
The Door by the Staircase
by Katherine Marsh | 
A Tangle of Knots
by Lisa Graff | 
The Velvet Room
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 
Liar & Spy
by Rebecca Stead | 
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
by Julie Andrews | 
Little Witch
by Anna Elizabeth Bennett | 
The King with Six Friends
by Jay Williams | 
The Wild Christmas Reindeer
by Jan Brett |
Twig
by Elizabeth Orton Jones | 
Gooseberry Park
by Cynthia Rylant | 
The Pink Motel
by Carol Ryrie Brink | 
Mr. Pudgins
by Ruth Christoffer Carlsen |
Trial by Journal
by Kate Klise |
"I'm obsessed with abandoned things." Siena's obsession began a year and a half ago, around the time her two-year-old brother Lucca stopped talking. Now Mom and Dad are moving the family from Brooklyn to Maine hoping that it will mean a whole new start for Lucca and Siena. She soon realizes that their wonderful old house on the beach holds secrets. When Siena writes in her diary with an old pen she found in her closet, the pen writes its own story, of Sarah and Joshua, a brother and sister who lived in the same house during World War II. As the two stories unfold, amazing parallels begin to appear, and Siena senses that Sarah and Joshua's story might contain the key to unlocking Lucca's voice.