In 1827 in Idaho twelve-year-old Celou Sudden Shout, who is half-French and half-Shoshone, attempts to rescue her mother and two younger brothers from the Crow warriors who kidnapped them.
When thirteen-year-old Amelina saves the life of a young Yankee spy found injured near her Louisiana home in 1863, the orphaned girl creates a dangerous situation for herself and her uncle.
In 1933, when her father's foot injury makes it impossible for him to do farm work for a while, thirteen-year-old Agnes steps in, proving herself and revealing her understanding of him.
When her wounded brother returns from battle, twelve-year-old Mary must get help for him without telling her father, a wealthy Tory, who has disowned his son for joining General Washington's Continental Army.
Sixth grader Janey G. Blue, living on Oahu while her father works at Hickam Airfield, is caught up in the terrifying events of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Twelve-year-old Emma receives unexpected friendship from an African-American roustabout and a Union soldier during an explosion on the steamboat Sultana in 1865.
Zellie faces a difficult decision that could cost her a job when her boss, the owner of a boarding house for the girls employed in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, asks her to spy on the young workers.
