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After moving with his family to Liberia, twelve-year-old Linus discovers that he has a mystical connection with the black mamba, one of the deadliest snakes in Africa, which he is told will give him some of the snake's characteristics. Includes facts about the author's experiences as a thirteen-year-old American living in Liberia in 1982.

Rick, a middle class white boy, finds himself a fish out of water when he spends the summer with the Romero family who live in a barrio in the hills of Santo Domingo, Mexico, for free room and board and help with his Spanish as he works with them to build a house on their land.

Lonely and isolated, twelve-year-old Oliver Parker's longing for friendship and a little adventure materialize one winter Paris evening when he looks into a mirror and is swept away to the Palace of Versailles and into the court of the Window Wraiths, where he becomes their ruler.

Thirteen-year-old Irene Benenati, a top soccer player on the girl's team at her Missouri school, plays on a fiercely competitive boy's soccer team during the year her family spends in Italy and experiences culture clashes both on and off the field.

Nineteenth-century mechanic Hank Morgan suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's Court where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas to the inhabitants.

After losing an important game for his team, NFL backup quarterback Rick Dockery is fired, but his agent finds him an opportunity to play for the Panthers of Parma, and even though he has never been to Europe, he moves to Italy hoping for a second chance.

A collection of articles written over the course of the author's junior year of high school as an exchange student in France, describing her experiences in a foreign culture and providing a look at the country through the eyes of a young American.

Recounts the story of the American contingent which joined other International Brigades in fighting with the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War.

Examines the planning, building, and maintenance of the Panama Canal and its current status.

Examines how the United States attempted to change the history of the Middle East, profiling the people and ideas that influenced the Bush administration's war policy.