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Tomie's life seems to go on as usual despite the war, and when he falls prey to a group of bullies, Tomie learns what it means to have a battle worth fighting.

The author recalls his fears as a first-grader during the initial days of World War II, the attack on Pearl Harbor, air raid drills, and blackouts, and the reassurance he received from his parents.

Sisters Abby and Julia Smith attract the attention of women's suffrage supporters across the country when they refuse to pay property taxes on their cows because they are not allowed to vote--a case they say is taxation without representation.

Carley struggles with being open to love after she suffers a betrayal that forces her to move in with a foster family.

A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy.

Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.

Louise finds the perfect dress for her junior high school dance at a traveling vintage fashion sale, and puts it on only to be transported back in time to a luxurious cruise ship in 1912 where she is feted as Miss Baxter, a teenage silent film star, but when she realizes the ship she is on is the "Titanic," she knows she must somehow find a way back home.

Investigative reporter Fran Simmons puts her own life in danger when she sets out to discover who really killed Dr. Gary Lasch, a murder for which his wife, Molly, has spent years in jail, even though she has no memory of the night of his death.

Chronicles the life and struggles of Prudence Crandall who, in the 1830s closed her all-white boarding school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut, and began admitting African-American students; and describes the intense opposition from the townspeople.