Michelle begins attending group sessions to help her deal with her parents' divorce, but her increasingly intense involvement with the group's charismatic leader leads to even bigger problems for both her and her mother.
While partying in an abandoned house with friends who are using drugs, Cassidy and Ken find a classmate murdered and risk implicating themselves if they go to the police.
While traveling in Israel for the summer, seventeen-year-old Mitch decides to stay and pursue a life of Jewish orthodoxy, forcing him to make some important decisions about the family and life he is leaving in southern California.
A young boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the antisemitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.
Her experiences at a summer camp in the California mountains in 1945 gives twelve-year-old Annie Platt new insight into her overprotective family of German-Jewish immigrants.
Marcus and his classmates learn about the terrible problem of slavery in present-day Sudan and raise money to help buy the freedom of some of the slaves. Alternate chapters tell the stories of the slaves.
When Jonathan's family buys Laurel's house, this Jewish boy and Chinese-American girl gradually become friends as they deal with ancestral spirits and changing family relationships.
