Frank is miserable when his family moves to Hawaii in 1941 until he meets Kenji, a Japanese-American boy who might become his friend. Then Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, raising questions of trust and loyalty in their growing friendship.
Christina Berwind and her family live in Johnstown. When the rains came, the dam that held Lake Conemaugh burst, unleashing a wall of water 125 feet high and rushing down the narrow valley at 50 miles an hour toward the town.
On November 22, 1963, Bernardo skips school in order to see his idol, John F. Kennedy, in person, only to witness the unthinkable--a presidential assassination.
In 1933, when drought and the Depression lay waste to their native Oklahoma, fifth grader Charlie and his family are forced to leave their home and search for a new way of life.
In the summer of 1952, Betsy sees her vacation fun overshadowed by the spreading polio epidemic, while her mother and other scientists work frantically to develop a vaccine for the crippling disease.
Bucky and his father, prospecting for gold in Alaska in 1898, must overcome storms, dangerous mountain trails, and wilderness predators before confronting the final challenge of human treachery.
As his family sets out from Missouri to Oregon, young Ben wonders whether he will have more trouble with the dangers of the journey or his debilitating asthma.
In 1911 Rosie becomes involved in the struggle for better working conditions in factories when fire rips through the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, where her older sister Freyda is employed.
Twelve-year-old Jin Mun, working for his father's laundry in San Francisco Chinatown, is shocked to discover that one of his neighbors is a slave girl, forbidden to leave her house.
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