A lonely girl named Tina is thrilled to finally find a friend, but when Little Bell comes over to visit, Tina worries that her mother does not like the girl. Presented in side-by-side English and Spanish.
During a search for spies in his Viennese neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Con, an American living overseas with his mother, gains a new awareness of antisemitism and the Holocaust.
When she refuses to let her friend's death be called an accident, eleven-year-old Emily, an orphan, encounters the ingrained prejudices of the "best" families in town.
Angela, a sixteen-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood in New York City, learns not to judge people by their socio-economic class after she reluctantly accepts a scholarship to a fancy boarding school.
The isolated Islanders, resistant of all newcomers, have always governed by the Teaching in the Book which has been orally passed down for generations. One day they find out, from one who reads, the real and astonishing story in the book.