Baskin, Nora Raleigh

Relates how the lives of four children living in different parts of the country intersect and are affected by the events of September 11, 2001.

Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone--that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five--and over whether to express her anger to her mother.

Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone--that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five--and over whether to express her anger to her mother.

"Struggling with her parent's divorce, Laura is unable to forget a boy she sees on a the subway platform across from her, a photographer who is also wondering if he will ever see her again."--Provided by publisher.

After years of being shuffled from town to town and back and forth between her divorced parents, twelve-year-old Leah, now living permanently with her father and stepmother, finds it difficult to adjust to her new situation and the circumstances that made it possible.

Maggie is only a sophomore in high school, but somehow she can draw out people's deepest truths whether they want to share them or not.

Twelve-year-old Gabby feels that she needs a mother to help her grow into a woman, so when things between her father and his latest girlfriend do not work out, Gabby set off for the last place she remembers seeing her own mother.

Julia and Eliza enjoy the summer together while Julia's mother serves in the National Guard in Iraq but when they meet a neighborhood boy, their relationship changes.

Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like as he tries to make sense of his world.