Convinced that his new foster parents do not really want him, eleven-year-old Cory decides to run away with his new friend, an old lady from the nearby nursing home.
When Meg hears that powerful forces are plotting the princess's destruction, she realizes she must find a way to rescue the fragile child whose life holds the key to peace and the destiny of a nation.
On the day he enters Kennedy High in Manhattan wearing a patch over one eye, sixteen-year-old Horace Hobart is urged to join the toughest gang at school.
A visit by an unusual aunt, a flood, a flying carpet, a kidnapping, and a groundswell of romance are all part of one summer in the lives of the closeknit Dither family in southern Virginia.
Seventeen-year-old Berkeley, who has never lived with her father, accepts his offer to accompany him to Europe as a graduation present and finds herself struggling to accept him as he really is and not as the ideal father she's always wanted.
Sandy, a sensitive sixteen-year-old boy spending the winter of 1911 helping his cousins on their ranch in Wyoming, records in his journal his first love and his attempts to sort through his confused feelings for his drunkard father in Denver.
