Celine's witty observations about her junior year in high school while living with her young stepmother are both funny and sad. Her plans to escape to Florence are interrupted by a new friendship with a young boy.
In nineteenth-century New York City, when Pa brings home a young turkey in hopes of saving money on their Christmas dinner, his family faces all sorts of trouble--and expense--in their tiny apartment.
Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.
Celine's father has asked her to act more mature so that she will be able to spend the summer in Italy--a visit from which she secretly plans not to return, but then events conspire against her.
Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.
At the request of her social worker, thirteen-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed.
