To honor his father who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa.
Willis thinks he wants to fall in love but when Sophie comes into his life, and falls in love with him, he's not sure if she really is the girl of his dreams.
A fictionalized account of the childhood of Sally Lincoln that recounts the adventures she had with her brother Abe and reveals how she helped shaped the future president.
A fourteen-year-old boy who was raised by an abusive old woman and who has always had questions about his parents sees a picture of a missing child and sets out to discover if he is that child.
With their mother in the hospital and their father's whereabouts unknown, two boys take to the streets of New York to escape being sent to a children's shelter.
In 1944, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.
Jeff dreams of being a movie director, and when he falls in love with a once-aspiring actress and her baby daughter, he imagines that together they can make their dreams come true.
Forced off their Kentucky land in 1816, nine-year-old Sarah Lincoln, or Sally, and her family, including younger brother Abe, move to the Indiana frontier.