Holland, Isabelle

During the New York Draft Riot of 1863, a young Irish Catholic girl helps an African-American make a daring escape from an angry mob.

Two orphan sisters in the late 1800s leave New York on the orphan train to seek a new home in the West.

A fatherless fourteen-year-old boy develops an unusual relationship with the man living near his summer home who helps him prepare his entrance exams to boarding school.

When their father is jailed for tax fraud, no one else seems to care much, but fifteen-year-old Betsy and her younger brother Roddy are determined to prove his innocence.

A twelve-year-old girl deals with problems of being overweight and family relationships.

Furious with her father for breaking his promise to go camping with her at the end of the school term, sixteen-year-old Pat decides to hitchhike home to teach him a lesson.

A 12-year-old girl deals with problems of overweight and family relationships.

A fatherless fourteen-year-old boy develops an unusual relationship with the man living near his summer home who helps him prepare his entrance exams to boarding school.

A teenager goes to visit wealthy relatives on a Caribbean island where the atmosphere soon becomes ominous, and then life-threatening.