Describes the various types of winds and their names in different parts of the world and discusses both the destructive and beneficial aspects of wind.
In 1775, thirteen-year-old Doone Ramsey flees to the Bay of Fundy side of Nova Scotia to escape the British press gangs and joins the rebels in the fight for independence from Great Britain.
In 1943, as she waits for her father to come home on leave, a sixth-grade girl in a midwestern town tries to find something special to do for the war effort, such as catching a German spy.