A brief biography, in graphic novel format, of Barack Obama, that covers his first one hundred days as president and the historic campaign before his election.
Examines certain aspects of the life of Abraham Lincoln in the years between 1831 and 1842, presenting him as a stubborn youth, partial to off-color jokes, and prone to depression; and traces the process by which he rose from unskilled laborer to a position of prominence in the Illinois legislature.
Steve Nugen can't understand why he has been forced to live at the institution of Burnstone Grove; but as he begins to write in his journal, he learns important things about himself he had never been able to see before.
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father--who fought in the previous war.
Nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan is caught between his father's struggle to defeat union organizers at his printing business, yellow journalism at the newspaper where he has a summer job, routine corruption in city government, and the secret past of a renowned psychiatrist whose daughter Wilson happens to be in love with.
