Life is changing on Seven Bay Island for Vicky Austin, with Commander Rodney dead, her grandfather dying, and three boys who devote their attention to her.
The alternating narratives of art tutor Samuel Godwin and governess Charlotte Agnew, who work for the wealthy Farrow family in 1898 England, reveal the secrets that almost everyone in the household is hiding.
An autobiography in which author Robert Newton Peck recalls his childhood and the people who influenced him the most, and discusses his writing career.
Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.
Fifteen-year-old Lee Hunter finds both his badly needed part-time job and his chances to become number one school miler threatened by the unscrupulous actions of a jealous teammate.
After the death of his mother, thirteen-year-old Salty goes to take his place working for the Buckley Arms Hotel where he begins to learn about the complexities of love and family.
Laurie thinks she is being spied on and is then dropped by several friends as a result of things they say she was seen doing but which she does not recall.
Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.
