1. Drink a grape soda, have a green shit 12 hours later.

Marsh Mellow! Paul Zindel! The Pigman's Legacy! Damn, now I have to go to Half-Price Books and get some of this stuff again.

One more: I Capture the Castle.

The Westing Game, Zia, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Tiger Eyes, or 13 Is Too Young To Die.

One of the most depressing books I've ever read was about EXACTLY this — The Fifth Child, by new Nobel laureate Doris Lessing. I read it about 3 months ago and couldn't pick up another book for a month, it was so devastating.