Beth is excited for her twelfth birthday, when she will receive her great-grandmother's heirloom necklace as a gift, but when the necklace goes missing, Beth must learn the secrets of her manor house in order to clear the name of her maid and friend, Shannon.
During the War of 1812, when settlers at Fort Cooper, Missouri, are besieged by a coalition of Indian nations allied with the British, twelve-year-old Millie volunteers to ride to nearby Fort Hempstead for reinforcements.
Hans and Lars, brothers who work on a tram in Amsterdam during World War II, rescue a little Jewish girl from the Nazi's after her mother is taken from the tram by force and raise her as their niece.
Presents the story of Sengbe Pieh, a West African man of the Mende tribe who, in 1839 was imprisoned on the Portuguese slave ship "Tecora" on its way to Cuba; and tells of the rebellion aboard ship and the trial of Sengbe and fellow captives.
"Four prisoners plan an escape from the Nazi death camp that the prisoners nick-named Himmelweg-the Path to Heaven. After stealing some weapons and sabotaging the camp's electricity, the prisoners set fire to the barracks. The SS assaults a traitor, leading to the revealing that he has access to the camp's armory. He supplies the committee with weapons, and one frigid winter morning, the revolt begins"--Amazon.
"Two Polish farmers, Otto and Julia, discover a hidden Nazi death camp in a forest near their farm. Trying to get food and water to the prisoners in transit, their plan begins to fall apart in unforeseen ways"--Amazon.
"J?zef joins an underground movement smuggling weapons and kerosene into the Jewish ghetto in central Poland. When Germans march in, the resistance strikes, but the Germans capture J?zef making him lose more than just his freedom"--Amazon.
"The US Air Force sends Russ Eckhart, a reconnaissance pilot, on a mission over German-occupied Poland to verify rumors of a German death camp. After his plane crashes, Russ is discovered by partisans who recruit him to help with sabotage, demolition, and an assassination"--Amazon.
"A student in France, Eric unwittingly joins the French Resistance movement, printing counterpropaganda, sabotaging German vehicles, and supplying explosives to other Resistance fighters. Betrayed, Eric is arrested by the Gestapo who place him on a train bound for the infamous Himmelweg"--Amazon.
"Himmelweg burns, grenades explode, and machine guns fire as Julia, Eric, J?zef, and Russ escape. While Julia and Eric are hidden and then denounced by a Polish priest, Russ and Eric join the Red Army to fight the Nazis"--Amazon.
