As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?".
Bullied relentlessly, Hiram Goldfarb, a Jewish immigrant in nineteenth-century New York City, learns bareknuckle fighting from a former slave wanted for a heinous crime in the South.
In 1874 Manhattan, Luc, sixteen, at nearly seven feet tall and seemingly impervious to pain, has become a local boxing star but when kangaroos are introduced to the ring, Luc's tender heart leads him to run away to save a joey.
In nineteenth-century New York City, teenaged Leung promises not to compete in bareknuckle boxing matches until he fixes his sloppy technique, but when his uncle's gambling debts get out of control, Leung must enter the ring to save him.
In nineteenth-century New York City, as Irish immigrant Myles McReary prepares to fight the mighty Giancarlo Sperio, a renegade priest gives Myles a relic that he claims will disorient Giancarlo--a relic the Catholic Church does not endorse.
In 1872 New York City, a young newspaper reporter puts his life in danger when he goes undercover to investigate a conspiracy in the violent world of bare-knuckle boxing.
Old Frank, an architect from New York, criticizes the designs of his grandson Young Frank, an aspiring architect, but changes his attitude after visiting The Museum of Modern Art.
While Kiki is in Paris to stop her evil cousin from all sorts of terrible deeds, Ananka and the other Irregulars must help Kiki find the cure for baldness, foil the evil plans of Oona's twin, and keep Ananka from falling in love with the wrong guy.
Angela must sell matches to survive in New York City. It's New Year's Eve 1999, and she's desperately trying to sell her matches, but passersby ignore her. As she succumbs to the cold, the near tragedy inspires the people she met to help the homeless.
