Kositsky, Lynne

As Claire finds herself drawn to red coat Sam Douglass she begins to fear he may be a spy intent on destroying her family and wonders if she should trust her own feelings or the rumors her brother whispers in her ear.

The year is 1783. Rachel and her family are former slaves. In return for helping the British during the American Revolution, they have been given free passage to Nova Scotia, Canada, where they can start a new life as free people. But Nova Scotian winters are harsh, and money is hard to come by. The family is forced to desperation, living in a shack too small to even stand up in and eating only cornmeal and molasses. How in the world are the three (soon to be four) of them going to survive?.

Teenager Perin Willoughby, having traveled back in time to the Elizabethan era, disguises herself as a boy to snag a job as an actor at the Theatre.

Esther, a Jewish girl on the run from the Nazis, is able to deal with the horrors of the war as well as the normal agonies of teenage life with thoughts of flying out of ever-higher windows.