baltimore (md.)

Sixteen-year-old Lacy Brink, surprised to find herself dead and buried at Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery, recruits fellow poets Sam and Edgar Allan Poe in resisting tyrannical Mrs. Steele's rules by having an open mic night.

Thirteen-year-old Cody moves to Maryland where he deals with unkind teasing from a baseball teammate, and mysterious thefts at his school may sideline Cody and ruin the team's season.

When widower Willa Drake receives a phone call from a stranger, she finds herself flying across the country to Baltimore, Maryland to look after a young women whom she has never met, her nine-year-old daughter, and their dog, Airplane.

Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.

Eighth-grader David Cray moves into a new house with his mom and he quickly becomes aware that something is off about the house. But soon after finding a secret room with an antique desk and carving of a raven, violence begins to follow him that David can connect to the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe.

Traces the story of the 1981-82 Dunbar Poets, one of the best high school basketball teams in United States history. Discusses coach Bob Wade, the politics and conditions of 1980s Baltimore, and the team's four players who went on to careers in the NBA.

Back in Baltimore, twelve-year-old identical twins Edgar and Allan think they have encountered the ghost of their great-great-great-great granduncle, Edgar Allan Poe, asking them to solve his murder--but really it is their arch-nemesis, Professor Perry, looking for revenge.

In February 1861 just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a "clear and fully matured" threat of assassination as he traveled by train to Washington D.C. for his inauguration. Over a period of thirteen days, detective Allan Pinkerton had worked feverishly to detect and thwart the plot, assisted by a widow named Kate Warne, America's first female private eye. As Lincoln's train rolled on, Pinkerton struggled to keep up with the ever-changing details of the murder plot, even as he dealt with Lincoln and his advisors who refused to believe the danger was real. Pinkerton took a desperate gamble to save Lincoln that was shrouded in secrecy, and later mired in controversy. The story of the Baltimore Plot is one of the great untold stories of the Civil War era.

Sarah and Susan share tea, cookies, crab cakes, and stories about hats when they visit their favorite relative, Aunt Flossie.

Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs chronicles her life in a journal when she leaves her family's farm in Pennsylvania to work as a hired girl in Baltimore in the summer of 1911.