Melinda Metz

Jamie Snyder is thirty-four and single, but not ready to mingle. She's ready to celebrate the year for herself, and MacGyver, of course. MacGyver is an adorable tabby with a not-so-adorable habit of sneaking out at night and stealing things from the neighbors. He's still the only male Jamie trusts-and the only companion she needs. But MacGyver knows his human is lonely. He can smell it. It's the same smell he's noticed on their neighbor David, a handsome...

Fifth-graders Zoe, Jaden, and Caleb and the rest of the Hubble Middle School S.M.A.R.T.S. club are participating in a Mars colony simulation sponsored by a private company, but when their equipment starts malfunctioning the kids suspect sabotage--and their chief suspect is Barrett and the rival Mad Scientists from the Edison Middle School.

"Most people think "The Fox" is just a folk tale, designed to lure tourists to their quiet little town on the Appalachian Trail. But kindergarten teacher Lillian Smith is hoping the stories of the white-eared, white-pawed vixen - who brings luck and love to those who see her - are all true. After a chance sighting of the fabled fox, Lillian hopes her hiker boyfriend Owen will finally propose. Instead, he publicly dumps her, claiming she's not adventurous...

Zoe, Jaden, and Caleb are working on building and programming a robot dog, which Caleb thinks is bad enough, but the high-tech android called Dude that their teacher has brought in terrifies him--and when something starts damaging the android during the night, Caleb is convinced that Dude is turning himself on as part of a plot to take over the world.

When just ten kids from two cliques at Hubble Middle School get sick after eating in the cafeteria it seems like somebody is deliberately trying to poison them, and while there are several suspects for who might want to get back at the super-cool girls, the other group are the innocuous comic book buffs--so it is up to Zoe and the other members of the S.M.A.R.T.S. to solve the mystery.

Having grown up in Roswell with only a few close friends aware that they are really aliens, Max, Isabel and MIchael have come of age. Uncertain about their future, they are forced into action when it become apparent that the use of their alien powers to help others has caught up with them. With the Air Force and the FBI closing in, Liz has a vision and realizes that not only the aliens are in danger, but also their human friends.