Gail Anderson-Dargatz

When city kid Mark has to move to the country to live with his grandmother, he has to take a school bus for the first time and quickly decides that all the passengers are insane and he wants to avoid them.

"Seventeen-year-old Jen is shocked to discover that the dad she grew up with is not her biological father. Jen loves to sing. But the rest of her family can't carry a tune. When a stranger named Mike gives her roses at her concert and reveals that he is her birth father, Jen's world flips upside down. Mike is a musician, just like Jen, and now she understands why she looks nothing like Steve, the only dad she's ever known. When Steve learns the truth...

"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle readers, while on a camping trip, a young teen starts to suspect that he and his family are being followed by a Bigfoot."-- His dad loves hunting for Bigfoot, but searching for a mythical creature in the dark isn't Jay's idea of fun. Especially because he always gets stuck looking out for his little sister while his dad plays with the cool gear, like night-vision goggles. But while out on a camping...