While trying to find a topic for her school assignment, Keisha visits Ellie's attic and discovers the excitement of the music and writing that flourished among African Americans in Harlem during the 1920s.
Transported by the magic mirror to the Amazon rain forest, ten-year-old Megan meets a girl whose scientist parents are searching for specimens of an endangered species of butterfly.
The story a young man's adventures and coming of age during the Great Depression. Freddie Bloch, alone at 13, rides the rails across the country in search of his father. Along the way, he encounters the best and worst mankind has to offer.