Bonham, Frank

When his father leaves home without explanation, Eric tracks him by boat for one thousand miles along the Baja coast. By the time the two finally confront one another, they both know what they want.

Sissy is deeply involved in the competition between two gymnastics schools while worrying about her father's trying to save an old and historical hotel.

Alternate chapters describe the experiences of eighteen-year-old twins, separated by an error in an English training camp, who both meet their first taste of World War II military activity in the Battle of the Bulge.

As headman of his teenage gang, Rufus Henry has to deal not only with other gangs, but also with the police sanctioned sponsor who has involved himself with Rufus and his friends.

Sissy is deeply involved in the competition between two gymnastics schools while worrying about her father's trying to save an old and historical hotel.

Torn between a desire to stay in school and his father's insistence that it is a waste of time, a black boy decides to quit school and go into business with the uncle he worships. When the venture fails and his uncle deserts him, the boy faces reality with a new maturity.