«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.»
«Talibah just wants to enjoy her trip to Egypt an work on her tan. But when she begins hearing cryptic voices that whisper phrases like «Find him! Now!» and «The time to measure your life has come», she quickly realizes she’ll be trading pools for pyramids.»
«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.»
«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.»