It was Ellie's first term at the Royal Ballet School in London; but her studies, new friendships, and homesickness were overshadowed by the rudeness of her roommate, Lara, who was also struggling with the new pressures to succeed.
During spring term at the Royal Ballet School, eleven-year-old Ellie learns some important lessons about friendship when an old friend comes to visit and a new one seems to be keeping a troubling secret.
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentlman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.
Alternating passages describe the experiences of a mother and her biological daughter when each is sixteen-years-old, as one becomes unexpectedly pregnant and the other decides whether to find her birth mother.
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
The inheritance of Howards End, a house in the Herefordshire countryside, is the source of conflict between three distinctly different social families.
Despite her parents' objections, thirteen-year-old Francie becomes involved in a theatrical production at Dubbs' School for Boys, winning the lead role and the attention of two student actors.
When Ms. Frizzle and her student Arnold follow an underground passage beneath Craig's Castle Shop and find themselves in the middle of a siege of a 12th century English castle, they learn a great deal about both castles and the Middle Ages.
