After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and reunites with his real parents who returned from hiding.
The story of Arlene and her family as they flee their home for one in the jungles, where life is fun. That is, until the Japanese take over the city of Zamboanga and the army surrenders.
In the mountains of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, a little bear and his mother get ready for their long winter sleep by gathering food and catching salmon.
Twelve fictional stories from different periods of Georgia history relate the adventures of gypsies, swampers, Cherokees, an Olympic weight lifter, and a parachuting dog.
When his father takes a job as a doctor with the Panama Canal project in 1911, William, who is fascinated with the canal, gets to learn about it firsthand, while he also learns about life from a Jamaican girl who has become his best friend.
The twelve-year-old son of a Union army doctor killed during the fighting in Fredericksburg comes to understand the meaning of war and the fine line between friends and enemies when he begins corresponding with a young Confederate prisoner of war.
An English boy, shipwrecked, hungry, and lost, finds his way into the court of Constantine where he is interpreted as a symbol of good luck and, as such, ordered to be kept always near the king.
Jill, an American high school student living in Tehran, finds herself falling in love with an Iranian rebel just at the time when the shah's repressive treatment of his people is making violent revolution inevitable.
With her parents away fighting on the Communist side during Greece's Civil War, Andi fights her own battle against Aristo, the cruel son of the oppressive Chief of Police.
