Following the murder-suicide of the Von Dursts, 16-year-old Alex, hired to house-sit their estate, is haunted by two forces, one leading him to discovery, and the other trying to kill him.
A seventeen-year-old, unhappy over his family's move to Cape Cod and irritated by his classmates' attitude towards protecting the environment, becomes convinced that a neighbor has murdered his wife.
When counterfeit money begins to circulate in her small New Jersey town and her father's parish seems to be implicated, 12-year-old Ruth determines to help him by tracking down the source of the money.
Eight-year-old Hannah meets with her mother's disapproval when she wants to wear the new women's garment, bloomers, which cause a mild sensation when they are introduced in the mid-nineteenth century.
Twelve-year-old Kim and her great-grandfather are alone in their family's mansion on Shag Island when they begin to hear strange music and see bright flashing lights, and realize they might be in grave danger.
Recounts the voyage in 1811 of the "New Orleans", the first steamboat to travel down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, a trip fraught with dangers including North America's most violent earthquake.
Follows the parallel lives of Helen Keller and Alexander Graham Bell, who continued to encounter and support each other from that eventful meeting when he recommended she be given a teacher and thus led her to Annie Sullivan.
