When their father takes a new job as a Texas high school football coach, twelve-year-old twins, Alex and Ava, face challenges adjusting to their new home and school which might compromise their sisterly bond.

Upon finding a large gold nugget on her pig farm, Desert Rose sets out to buy the biggest, fattest hog in Texas to enter in the state fair, but first she must get the hog to Laredo and every animal she asks for help is just as "ornery" as the hog.

Julia Jaynes of Austin, Texas, is one of the select, a secret group of humans with abilities bordering on the supernatural, but, unlike her younger sister, she has never been entirely comfortable as part of the "perfect" family--and when she falls for a normal human guy and draws attention to her more-than-normal family she finds herself banished to that most ordinary of institutions: public high school.

"Quinn Knight, a new sixth grader at Hill Springs Middle School in Central Texas, has always been a little different. Not only is she an astrophotographer who battles chronic migraine headaches, she's recently discovered that the stars--those in the Pleiades constellation, to be exact--are trying to tell her something. Someone is threatening Quinn's older sister, eighth-grade social butterfly Vivica, and Quinn realizes the clever constellation is...

The mystery at the Alamo: The Aldens are visiting the Alamo with their grandfather. They arrive at the Alamo to find that a movie is being made there -- and they are going to be in it. But then things start to go wrong on the movie set, and a priceless ring from the Alamo Museum disappears. Are the two things connected? It is up to the Boxcar Children to solve this new puzzle! The outer space mystery: The Boxcar Children are going to college! That...

Ever since Bertie moved to Texas, everything is going wrong: the Science Squad kids avoid him, their monarch butterfly project proves surprisingly hard, and something strange is happening with the few specimens they do find.‌ Includes fact file, "In the Field," and glossary.

Avery Grambs était prête à devoir trimer dur pour intégrer une bonne école et accéder à une vie meilleure que celle qu'elle a connue depuis qu'elle est jeune. L'orpheline tombe ainsi des nues en apprenant que Tobias Hawthorne, un millionnaire dont elle ignorait l'existence, lui lègue toute sa fortune. Par contre, le testament de l'inconnu lui demande de vivre pendant au moins un an dans le domaine familial, au Texas, en compagnie de sa famille...