Penelope Wilhern is born to wealthy socialites. She is afflicted by the Wilhern spell that can only be broken when she finds love. Hidden away in her family's estate, the lonely girl meets a string of suitors in her parent's futile attempt to break the curse. Each eligible bachelor is enamored with Penelope and her sizable dowry, but only until her curse is revealed. Lemon, a mischievous and eager tabloid reporter, wants a photograph of the mysterious...

We all have firsts in life-first birthday, first day at school, first friends, first love, and a lot more of firsts. Pickles shares all these journeys with you. In this story, he discovers his first Christmas, his first snow, his first time in the garden, his first friendship, and the outside world.

Meet Tiffany Epiphany, our first friend in The Spectrum Series! The series features characters who celebrate the gifts, challenges, and accomplishments as children with autism. Tiffany has autism and she is very lucky. She gets to see the world in a unique way. Her story doesn't stop at her diagnosis. Through her adventures Tiffany shows her family and friends just how big and beautiful her world truly is.

It's the first day of kindergarten and Angela only has one friend, Gracie, but she is imaginary. Join Gracie as she helps Angela make her first friend! Making new friends can be really scary. On Angela's first day of kindergarten she is terrified of meeting new people. However, her imaginary friend, Gracie makes her feel a lot better. Gracie knows that Angela will have to make new friends one day. How will Gracie help Angela make a new friend?

Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.

Governor General's Award—winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost first friend. They conjure the subtle layers of meaning in that early friendship to riff on to a search for how we might possibly understand the primal First: the beginnings of the cosmos that contains our own particular lives,...

Alone was the note Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords. Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her cherry-red guitar. Or so she thought. Her world shakes apart when a hologram named Mr. Niven tells her she was created in a lab in the year 3112, then entangled at a subatomic level with a boy named Xan. Cade's quest to locate Xan joins her with an array of outlaws-her first friends-on a galaxy-spanning...

Determined to find the knight responsible for the terrible deaths of her mother and the Jewish peddler who had given them a home, thirteen-year-old Sarah is helped in her quest by a strange old woman, a magical sword, a young faery, and an unkempt knight with little armor and no horse. Ever since that tragic night when her mother and guardian were murdered, thirteen-year-old Sarah has been living on her own and searching for the knight who was responsible....

Naya hasn't had the best first year of university - her boyfriend broke up with her, leaving her friendless and pining after him. That is, until she meets Brynn one day at the gym. Brynn is cool and beautiful, and new to the city. Naya is her first friend here. But when Brynn actually turns out to be the famous actress Aviva Jersey in disguise, Naya must decide how much of their friendship is real and how much was just an act. And the longer Naya...

Riley's not the scared, weak boy of years ago.Strong, handsome, wealthy, and successful, he should be happy, but he's not. He's still tormented by the memory of the bullies of his school years, the cruelty he was subjected to. There's only one way to silence those reverberating memories, and that's revenge.But while seeking it, he finds peace in the small village where he befriends Zac, the cake maker. Zac's the first friend Riley's had in decades,...