When Tristran Thorn travels to find the star that fell out of the sky to give to his beloved, he discovers that what he believes about the world is not always so.
Profiles everyday life in Elizabethan England, covering religion, clothing, accommodations, foods, hygiene, illness and medicine, law, and entertainment. Draws from diaries, letters, books, and other writings.
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
Sixteen-year-old Molly Fraser works as a nurse with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War to earn a salary to help her family survive in nineteenth-century England.
Whenever Jem looks into someone's eyes, she sees the date of their death. In line for a ride on London's Eye Ferris Wheel, Jem notices that all the others in line flash today's number. Disconcerted by this view, Jem leaves the area moments before a deadly terrorist attack.
Sixteen-year-old Laura journals as her family begins to fall apart after futuristic England begins to ration carbon dioxide due to global warming, and she longs for the days of normalcy.
Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.
