Keladry of Mindelan continues her training to become a squire with the aid of a new maid, the support of her friends, interference from some other pages, and some serious, even dangerous opposition.
In the summer of 1889, Amelia van den Broek's time with her stylish cousin Zora in Baltimore is interrupted by a series of disturbing visions that offer glimpses of the future and threaten her future with Nathaniel, a young man who is keeping secrets of his own and seems to be linked to Amelia's darkest visions.
Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
A fictionalized biography of eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, who remembers his boyhood and the events leading up to World War I, as he lies dying on a battlefield in France.
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
Addy and Harriet feud over everything, including fund-raising plans to help the families of freed slaves, but tragedy finally forces them to stop fighting and work together.
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.
Vice-Commander Hijikata loses his collection of haiku, Vice-Commander Yamanami distances himself from the rest of the Shinsengumi, and Suzu plans his next treacherous move.