Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.

In small town, post World War II Oregon, twenty-one sixth grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie, must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.

Descriptive look at the discovery of bog bodies in northern Europe and the evidence which their remains reveal about themselves and the civilizations in which they lived.

When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and cultured-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.

When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon, who lives in the secret downsider community that has evolved in the subterranean passages of the subway built in New York in 1867, she and her new friend try to bridge the differences between their two cultures.

While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth century Japan.

In 1860, a somewhat simple minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado in hopes of selling them at a profit.

An eleven-year-old Jewish girl living in the South during the 1950s, struggles with the anti-Semitism and racism which pervade her small community.

During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal, meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.