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.
When their club, threatened by lack of finances, is forced to close down, four friends devise a scheme to locate the fat aging tomcat whose inheritance, destined eventually to go to the club, is being shared by a sly lawyer and the cat's caretaker.
Determined not to give in to Turk Ransom's pressure to join one of his gangs, Cool Hankins finds unexpected support from an African stranger who seems to be on a mysterious mission.
A ghetto youth and his friends hope to make money as movers but their venture is continually threatened by a few seeking faster and easier ways to make money.
Editor of the high school newspaper, bright but klutzy Kevin delights in his budding relationship with French Anni, who seems to possess some extraordinary power of prediction, but a strange reluctance to discuss it.
Henry Crowfoot, high school senior and hereditary chief of a small band of California Indians, resurrects a little-known treaty in an effort to improve the lives of his people.
