Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

In Paris, seventeen-year-old Khayyam, a part-Indian, part-French Muslim American, is at a crossroads when a chance encounter plunges her into research about Leila, a girl much like Khayyam who inspired Eugene Delacroix.

In 1815, Lady Sophie Rosier's first London season is marred not only by her physical and emotional scars, but also by magical attacks on her father and other members of the British War Cabinet, and while Sophie's magical powers are unreliable, she and her new best friend Parthenope decide to investigate--despite the distraction of Parthenope's handsome cousin.

Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.

Amber, Trendon, and their friends solve the mystery of Elijah's fire that reigned down from heaven to destroy the priests of Baal.

Captured by members of another Irish clan, Lara continues to protect the young filly, Dannsair, and ponders how they might escape together.

Riley, dead at age twelve and now a Soul Catcher, works with her teacher Bodhi to help Rebecca, the daughter of a former plantation owner who, furious about being murdered during a 1733 slave revolt, is keeping those who died with her from crossing over.

Volunteering at an orphanage, Cécile becomes especially close to one little girl named Perrine; when Cécile hears that a huge benefit will be held to raise money for all the orphanages in New Orleans, she determines to take part.

Moving to New Orleans, Marie-Grace Gardner meets Mademoiselle Océane, a talented opera singer; she wants to take voice lessons and to meet Cécile Rey, the confident girl who is Mademoiselle's student.

When yellow fever is raging through New Orleans, Marie-Grace and Cécile have been volunteering at the orphanage which is becoming crowded with children who have lost their parents to the dreadful disease.