Beverly Cleary’s RAMONA AND HER FATHER; an eight-year-old tries to think up ways to win a million dollars after her father loses his job.

Jacqueline Winspear’s MAISIE DOBBS; an aristocratic employer sees intellectual promise in one of her maids and raises her station. The first of a series.

Doris Lund’s ERIC; a mother tries to save her champion athlete son after he is suddenly diagnosed with deadly leukemia.

Delia Owens’s WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING; a girl living alone on a remote part of North Carolina, is suspected of murder.

Joyce Carol Oates’s WONDERLAND; a boy is orphaned after his father murders the entire family.