Alice, who had been longing for a baby brother, finds a giant-sized baby sitting happily on her doorstep one day. Many adventures come their way as Alice's family keeps the baby until his mother returns for him.
Describes the life of Liam Leatham, a young Catholic boy, and his family as he prepares for a boxing match that he sees as the first step out of violence-plagued Belfast.
In 1918 Illinois, Ida Lou dreams of finding her estranged father by becoming an aerialist in the circus, but her plans may be sidetracked by a terrible accident.
In 1941, the four Loney children, orphaned and alone in a small Saskatchewan prairie town, manage to pull themselves up and survive under the watchful eye of a pair of ghosts.
Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.
While visiting his mentally ill mother at a psychiatric hospital, high school junior Ben Mander starts talking to a young man who claims that he travels back and forth between the present and the year 4000, searching for a cure for mental illness.
Fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is African-American, and Ellie, who is white, fall in love after meeting at their private school in New York, and must contend with the reactions of their families, friends, and others at the school.
A comprehensive study of the history, culture, geography, and social and family life of Native Americans including the structure of their societies, ceremonies and rituals, warfare, and intertribal trade and conflicts.
