Castrovilla, Selene

Tells in alternating chapters of prose and free verse what happens when privileged, sixteen-year-old Dorothy falls in love with Joey, an abused teenager with a violent past.

With Dorothy now lost and fragmented, Joey works to better himself to make good on his promise, but when he learns of a devastating decision, he rushes to find her before it is too late.

Looks at the friendship of Marquis de Lafayette who traveled from France to Philadelphia to have sign on for the patriot cause with George Washington.

Fifteen-year-old Willow, forced to spend her summer on a barge which her aunt is converting into a concert hall, connects with a teenage boy living on a neighboring sailboat who has a troubled past, and the two find themselves struggling to save one another after a series of devastating events.

As seventeen-year-old Sam desperately tries to help her best friend and neighbor Jesse through aggressive treatments for a rare and usually fatal form of cancer, they find themselves falling deeply in love.

Illustrations and text detail how the Culper Spy Ring aided General George Washington by collecting and delivering information to the American forces about the British troops, and whether they knew of an incoming French fleet.

School teacher Benjamin Tallmadge's emotions are tested when he joins George Washington's army and participates in the Revolutionary War.