Gen Welsh rolls her eyes and throws a fit when her mother announces that the family will spend their summer vacation at Camp Frontier. Of course, Gen’s adverse reaction has no effect on her mother. All too soon, Gen finds herself handing over her iPod, make-up, clothes, and all other modern accoutrements so that she…
Because of the “Fury,” Bruno’s father is assigned as the commandant of a Polish concentration camp that Bruno calls “Out-With.” So, Bruno’s family moves from Berlin to a desolate place with no other houses and no other children. The new house gives Bruno a bad feeling, a feeling that grows into a pain in his…
When six-year-old Charlie Ryland is invited to her gym’s TOPs team (Talent Opportunity Program), gymnastics becomes her life. TOPs provides the U. S. Gymnastics Association a way to identify promising talent in kids between ages seven and ten. When she turns eight, Charlie’s mother starts home schooling her so she can spend more time training. …
Through poetry and letters, Mina Tagawa tells her family’s story. Soon after Pearl Harbor, her father, a newspaper reporter, is arrested under suspicion of sedition. Every day, Mina and her brother endure verbal and physical attacks at school. Mina wants to scream every time she hears, “Jap.” She doesn’t feel Japanese. She’s an American! In…
