Felicia's grandmother tells her the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Lily, who witnessed a mysterious kidnapping one night in 1928 Harlem, New York.
In 1898 Wilmington, N.C. is on the verge of elections that will determine the course of local segregation and the fate of African-American residents. Meanwhile, Troy and Randy encounter a mystery that could tear the city apart.
In Seneca Village, a thriving neighborhood of African- Americans and recent immigrants in the middle of New York City in the 1850s, friends Kayla and Sooncy face separation when the city announces that by eminent domain it plans to take their land to build Central Park.
In addition to having to cope with major changes in her family, twelve-year-old Susannah, who lives in seventeenth-century Maryland, struggles with her promise to keep the secret of a runaway indentured servant.
During a yellow fever epidemic in 1803, Esther and Archibald Gracie move their family from Manhattan to their country home, where the children search for an underground passageway and a mysterious visitor to the mansion that would later be home to the mayors of New York City.
Eleven-year-old Sarah Turner recalls the difficult times for her family caused by the British presence in Boston in the 1770s and the events leading up to the act of rebellion known as the Boston Tea Party.
