After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
Adventures
City Within A City: How Kids Live In New York’s Chinatown
Describes the lives of two young Chinese Americans and their customs and conditions at home in New York City’s Chinatown.
Samurai Shortstop
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.