Gold, Jennifer

"Growing up in New York City in the shadow of her mother, a famous prima ballerina, Clara has never felt good about her body. Now, at sixteen, she has orthorexia -- an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. Clare escapes for the summer to Paris to stay with her estranged dad, her stepmom, and her six-year-old brother Alastair, who is on the autism spectrum"--Back cover.

"In the aftermath of her mother's death, Cat recklessly defers her admission to Stanford and joins Students Without Boundaries. She is sent to the South American city of Calante, torn apart by a recent civil war. There she meets Margo, a sophisticated urbanite out to pad her resume for medical school, and Taylor, heir to a hotel fortune and hoping to redeem himself after a failed freshman year at college. She also meets Rafael, a local boy battling his own grief and demons, desperate to be the savior he thinks his country needs. As her relationship with Rafael deepens, Cat is no longer sure what she wants or what is right and wrong"--Amazon.com.

Elizabeth Bryant's search for the original owner of an antique doll she purchased for her soldier father who is about to ship out to Afghanistan is interwoven with the doll's journey through various conflicts since World War I.