With his father in prison, fourteen-year-old William is left to manage the house and seeks to find a way to save his mother from the paralyzing grief brought on by the death of Francis, her son and William's older brother.
an American story of love and fear in the homeland
Salisbury, Stephan
2010
Discusses the case of Mohamed Ghorab, an imam at an obscure Philadelphia mosque, who was arrested and deported without evidence following 9/11. The devastation to his community and family, and the threat to American civil liberties was not examined until prize-winning reporter Stephen Salisbury began to do research into the story.
In Depression-era Philadelphia, when eleven-year-old David is too ill to attend school, he is tutored by the unique and adventurous Aunt Annie, whose teaching combines with his imagination to greatly enrich his life.
In 1975, life is not fair for fourteen-year-old Charmaine Upshaw, who shares a room with her brother, tries to impress a handsome classmate, and acts as caretaker for a rambunctious six-year-old cousin who has taken over the family.
When Sylvie Bates-McAllister receives a phone call from the school where her adopted son Scott teaches, she learns he is alleged to have been involved in a hazing ritual. The event sparks a fire of controversy that spreads through her family, revealing long-buried secrets and changing the way they all view one another.
Frank and Joe Hardy travel to Philadelphia with friends to see Aerocirque, an exciting new circus act performed from helicopters, and become involved investigating a series of robberies in high-rise apartments.
Frank and Joe Hardy are undercover agents for the American Teens Against Crime organization and are assigned to investigate the sabotaging of an extreme sports meet in Philadelphia.
Patsy Black and her friend Barbara, young girls living in colonial Philadelphia at the time of the Continental Congress, decide to form a club called the Daughters of Liberty, little realizing they will one day aid the forces of freedom.
Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing when her family saves the life of a runaway slave.
