A young boy and girl escape their summer camp after being victims of a vicious prank and go on various adventures trying to find their way back home.

"In a hellish city, the fate of a young boy rests on the very thing he fears most. Robbed of his childhood by tragedy and betrayal and forced onto the streets, only fury makes young Ninian feel whoel - and in a world of gangs and fae, Ninian is more than willing to fight for his life. But it doesn't take much to topple a life which is already balanced on the edge of a knife. And by the time a desperate Ninian realizes he's crossed the worng person,...

Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place-a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie-and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth...

In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.

Returning to her hometown to figure out what's holding her back, Sarah develops an obsession with the girl who bullied her in high school and gains a stalker who forces her to deal with her victim mentality.

Loneliness, disillusionment and the experience of first love reveal the character of Raya, a seventeen-year-old living in rural Latvia with her grandmother and her little brother Robis. A huge turn of events shakes up their lives, and the young girl must come to decisions that even a grown woman would find challenging to make.

Looking for a little mischief after discovering an old flare gun, Ron and Ben find themselves in trouble when the local gas bar on Agamiing Reserve goes up in flames, and they are wrongly accused of arson by the sheriff's son. As the investigation goes forward, community attitudes are revealed, and the truth slowly comes to light.

A young couple experiences first love in San Fernando Valley, California, during the early 1970s.

In the 1970s, a girl comes of age struggling with the loss of two father figures in her life.