In this first book of the trilogy, siblings Molly and Adam learn that men in their family die the day before their thirty-fifth birthday. Their family decides to take a vacation at their cottage by the lake to make sure their Dad is safe and nothing goes wrong. Instead, everything goes wrong when their grandfather's ghost greets them at the cottage.
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.
After her father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Rose Rives finds that sixteenth-century France is a dangerous place for women, when some greedy, vindictive men charge her mother and others with being witches.
Fourteen-year-old Ben Friedman and his family flee Nazi Germany in 1941 hoping to find a better life in America; but when Pearl Harbor is attacked, his friendship with a young Japanese-American boy becomes strained.
When Lenora and Coren find themselves trapped in a world created as part of the contest held in preparation for their marriage, they encounter the writers who are responsible for their existence.
Trouble comes to the kingdom of Gepeth in the form of a flying giant, the appearance of forbidden snow, a tornado, and the loss of Princess Lenora's extraordinary mental powers.
When Mama falls ill and Papa invests all the family's money in a new business, eleven-year-old Rosie Lepidus must go to work in a garment factory and soon gets involved in union activities.
After the Nazi occupation of Denmark forces his Jewish friends to flee the country, seventeen-year-old Jesper continues his work in the underground resistance movement. Sequel to "Lisa's War.".
