Passages to history

Ken Sutton is a good American citizen, but he knows that the war in Vietnam is wrong and feels he must do all he can to stop it, despite his father's strong objections.

Grace Foster does not see the racial discrimination in her home town until it begins to directly affect her.

Sixteen-year-old Amelia Kintz misses her snug little house in Germany after her family moves to a dirty shanty in an Ohio immigrant settlement in 1855.

In 1939 in Westphalia, Ohio, seventeen-year-old German American Karl Schmidt has trouble believing what he is hearing from his friend Rebecca about Jews being mistreated by Hitler.

On his way to medical school in England, sixteen-year-old Peter McCall is kidnapped by pirates and held for ransom.

During the Great Depression, Hank Proctor has to put aside his dreams of becoming a doctor to care for his parents, amidst worry that his father will do something desperate.