Whelan, Gloria

Thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage and must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's customs or find the courage to oppose tradition.

In 1816, sixteen-year-old Mary O'Shea accepts her married sister's invitation to visit her in London and experiences much of the world beyond her beloved family farm on Mackinac Island, Michigan.

Pierre, a ten-year-old boy who longs to cook, is deemed too young by his parents, owners of La Bonne Vache restaurant in a small French town, but while out riding his bicycle, he encounters an important food critic on his way to the restaurant, and knows he must take the opportunity to prove himself as a chef.

In 1841 thirteen-year-old Libby and her family begin a new life on the shores of Lake Michigan where her father works as a surveyor for the Ottawa Indians and Libby is reunited with her Indian friend Fawn.

Elsa dreads spending the summer at her grandparents' house on Lake Huron, but she discovers the excitement of nature and the richness of friendship.

It is the autumn of 1839 and Lucy, an orphan, has come to live with her aunt and uncle, who run a mission school for Indians. Aunt Emma is stern and has rules for everything; she gives the students AMerican names and dresses them in drab mission clothes. Uncle Edward tells them that the old ways are gone, and now they must fit into the white man's world. Lucy cannot understand why the Indians are the ones who must do the changing.

Teenaged Silvia tries to save her brother, Eduardo, after he is captured by the military government in 1970s Argentina.

When she sneaks away to visit her friend, a young girl living on the Michigan frontier is caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands in the 1840s.