White, Ellen Emerson

Apartment superintendent and aspiring actress Dana Coakley's life takes an unanticipated turn when she agrees to help a student she tutors at an alternative school who is implicated in a crime. Dana suspects that arson, not her student, is to blame when a home for low-income families mysteriously burns to the ground killing children and firefighters.

Rebecca, a young nurse stationed in Vietnam during the war, must come to grips with her wartime experiences once she returns home to the United States.

When her best friend is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose, seventeen-year-old Susan suspects murder and determines to find out the truth.

An 18-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.

In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.

Follows the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn from 1889 to 1893 as she studies to be a better princess, even as Hawaii's monarchy, and her throne, are being undermined by American businessmen.

A biography of Shaquille O'Neal, the NBA superstar center for the Orlando Magic.