«Kate’s humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.»
«Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at the Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.»
«Merci Suárez has never been like the other kids at Seaward Pines Academy -she doesn’t have a big house or take fancy vacations. She’s a scholarship student who lives with her extended family in three little houses they call Las Casitas.»
«I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing…How odd, I thought: it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me for me to claim a life of my own.»