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Marty finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home and tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat dogs.

Nhamo is a Shona girl living in a traditional Mozambican village in 1981.

In 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is returning from her school in England to her family in America. But her ship, the Seahawk is a seedy ship headed by a murderously cruel captain. Charlotte gets caught up in the bitter feud between captain and crew.