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Fifteen-year-old Dustin Martinez, an aspiring astronaut, in Cocoa Beach, Florida, is devastated when the space shuttle "Challenger" explodes shortly after launch, and when he learns his father, a scallop boat captain, is going to help NASA's recovery effort, he makes plans to stow away and join the hunt.

In the late 1970s, fifteen-year-old Skip Jenson moves to a small town in Ohio from California, and as he finds other kids at school who also love skateboarding, he finds that his way of riding is not quite as rebellious as theirs.

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.

Relates the story of the final voyage of the "Titanic, " where fourteen-year-old Christopher Watkins must find a way to care for his mother and younger brother after the ship hits an iceberg and sinks.

While working with his mother in food service at NASA, fourteen-year-old Ramon is about to witness either the greatest disaster or the greatest rescue in American history as something goes wrong with the mission of Apollo 13.

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.