Sixteen-year-old Amelia Kintz misses her snug little house in Germany after her family moves to a dirty shanty in an Ohio immigrant settlement in 1855.
Mariel learns a lesson about herself when her jealousy over Jannon Brown, a new girl at school who looks, acts, and dresses exactly like her, enables her to see the truth about her boyfriend, Terrell.
Huong Ngo, a Vietnamese boy who has immigrated to the U.S. with his parents, learns the sad truth about an alleged wild man who lives in the forest when he is forced to call upon the man for help to free his friend from a dangerous cave.
Danica is the only one who can save her family after they are taken prisoner by a madman at the Iris Arms, an out-of-the-way hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Jason is upset to learn his favorite old oak tree is going to be cut down to make way for a new sports complex, but his distress turns to fear when he realizes the tree is literally fighting for its life.
Jim Black Eagle's grandfather is pressuring him to try out for the Olympic track team, hoping to make him the second Native American to win a gold medal, and Jim must somehow convince the older man that his heart is not in running, but in art.
Chronicles the life and achievements of Booker T. Washington, his three years at the Hampton Institute, and his founding of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Marcus Platt feels like a nobody, so he uses his father's connections to get a date with popular Sheryl Williams, but it may take a tragedy for him to realize that he is "somebody.".
