fiction

Map on endpapers.

Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris and is blind by age six. Her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, so she can memorize it and navigate the real streets. When the Germans occupy Paris, they flee to Saint-Malo on the coast. In Germany, Werner grows up enchanted by a crude radio he finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, which wins him a place with the Hitler Youth. Werner travels throughout Europe, and finally to Saint-Malo, where his meets Marie Laure.

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.

Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.

On a moose-hunting trip in Alaska, Sami and Kathleen become lost in the woods and try to retrace their steps back to camp.

On a fishing trip in Wyoming, siblings Seb and Sami become trapped by a flash flood and must find a way to get back across the river.

While hunting deer in Colorado, Sammi and Seb's dog Rocky runs off a cliff while tracking a deer, and the siblings must help him up the cliff's wall to continue the search.

On a dove-hunting trip in North Carolina, Seb is injured in a fall and Sami must get him back to camp.

Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.