Murphy, Barbara

An American teen-ager and a French exchange student who is due home in two weeks struggle with their love for each other.

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.

Teenage movie actor Horace "Ace" Hobart and his New York gang, the Purple Falcons, get involved in live theatre and an arson plot when they take summer jobs at a home for retired actors.

Twelve-year-old Lily faces the loss of her older sister to leukemia.

After learning that his father was adopted, Ace Hobart joins him in a journey from New York to New Mexico, during which they meet Ace's great-grandmother, a circus performer, his grandfather, a Tewa Indian, and other relatives he never knew existed.

Miguel Rivera is the new kid in town, a young Mexican living with his family near the border in Texas. It isn't bad enough that he has to deal with the class bully, Joey Jeter Cort?s, and his mean substitute-teacher mother, he's also struggling with his family to find their place in a new world. One day, in Santa Fe, Miguel is chased by boys and takes refuge in the Palace of the Governors. There, among the old and dusty artifacts of the Kingdom of New Spain, Miguel learns about his homeland and what it means to be a boy full of pride and confidence, in America.

Describes the events of the two Atlantic crossings made by Thor Heyerdahl and an international crew in papyrus boats, replicas of those used by the ancient Egyptians.