fiction

From the cover: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life -- dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge -- he follows. After their all-nigher ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, alway an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues -- and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.

The Compsons, a genteel Southern family that encountered difficulty after the American Civil War, wrestle with squandered fortunes, incest, madness, complex race relations, and other problems.

Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, visit Plymouth Plantation to see how the Pilgrims lived and to celebrate a big feast with the Pilgrims and Native Americans.