Piano player Benjamin January becomes a scapegoat for the prominent men of nineteenth-century New Orleans when he volunteers to arrange a meeting between old friend Mademoiselle Madeleine and her husband's Creole mistress Angelique Crozat, and ends up being one of the last people to see Crozat alive.
Sixteen-year-old Vincenzo Soldari gathers a ragtag crew of children and outsiders left in the bombed out city of Naples to mount an attack against the invading forces of Hitler.
At fifteen years old, Charity Fowler finds herself pulled into the middle of the Salem witch trials when her aunt is accused of being a witch and the townspeople set out to destroy her and the rest of the family.
In 1409, aspiring knight Roland Wright joins the royal household at Twofold Castle as a new page, but his plan to impress King John and his knights quickly backfires.
A collection of stories about a young Indian girl named Kaya. Kaya dreams of becoming a leader but she has lessons to learn still. For example, she learns the importance of responsibility when she is distracted by a bareback horse race when she was supposed to be caring for her little brothers.
Helen Marshall, a fourteen-year-old girl from Illinois, is confronted with the complexities of adult life when she takes a summer job at a factory during World War II.
While salvaging and rebuilding in the aftermath of the Galveston flood of 1900, sixteen-year-old Seth proves himself in a way that his previous efforts never could, but he still must face his father man-to-man.
