Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.

"Difficult child Maria Latif arrives in Long Island from Pakistan to live with the strange Clayborne family where she discovers an off-limits garden that becomes a place where she finally feels at home"-- Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never...

In this queer reimaging of The secret garden, fifteen-year-old orphan Mary sets off to live in the Georgian Bay wilds where she discovers family secrets both wonderful and horrifying.

Sadie and Logan make their first mistake when they ditch the end-of-year senior field trip to the amusement park in favor of exploring the Indiana back roads. When they come across a giant, abandoned corn maze, the corn is the vibrant green of midsummer. It's the wrong season: corn mazes are for the fall. Second mistake: they enter anyway-- and stumble on corpses in the maze. Corpses identical to them in every way, from clothes and hair down to a...