Lois Duncan

Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....

Katherine Gordy, who goes by the nickname Kit, starts down a dark path after the death of her father. With a misdemeanor arrest and two school suspensions in her past, no one is willing to believe in her innocence when she's accused of arson. Her mother Ginny and step-father Dave don't know what to do with her. When a member of a mysterious, exclusive academy, the Blackwood Boarding School, approaches the family with a reeducation plan, Ginny accepts...