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In the late 1960s, sixteen-year-old Lam Hung guides an American platoon through South Vietnam, but seeing as how Lam was once a member of the Viet Cong, his job leading the men around the dangers hidden in the jungle might not be as difficult as earning the men's trust.

While traveling across the Texas countryside, fifteen-year-old Cal and his mother spy thousands of Mexican soldiers approaching, but when they reach the safest place that they can find--the Alamo--Cal worries that such a small group of soldiers will not be able to fight off an entire army.

Pony Express rider Matt Edgars is concerned about a war with the Paiutes when a number of Express stations are set on fire.

Sarah, a fourteen-year-old slave living in Maryland in the 1850s, tries to escape to freedom in the North through the Underground Railroad, knowing that her path to freedom will be filled with danger.

Ethan Michelson and his family survive an avalanche, the perils of an icy river, and battle a deadly fire in their pursuit of gold.

Best friends Hank and James camp out on the island of Oahu during the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Lieutenant Maynard and the men of the Royal Navy enlist the help of a local fisherman and his son to guide them through the shallow waters in their pursuit of Blackbeard; however, they didn't count on the boy's devotion to the notorious pirate.

Twelve-year-old Charlie O'Leary signs about the USS Varuna in order to locate his brother Johnny, and finds himself in the middle of a deadly battle in New Orleans during the Civil War.

Fifteen-year-old Tommy, having been forced into a Japanese internment camp with the rest of his family, investigates when another internee is attacked.

Fourteen-year-old Daniel is disappointed when his father makes him stay behind to work in his blacksmith shop instead of enlisting in the militia, but when Daniel discovers a horde of weapons in the backroom of the shop, Daniel's role becomes crucial to the fate of the American Revolution.