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With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.

Two fourteen-year-old girls, sewing machine operators at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, are caught in the famous Triangle fire of 1911.

Follows the life of the versatile artist Leonardo da Vinci, from his childhood near Florence to his death in France.

Mutual need creates an intense, difficult friendship between fourteen-year-old Teri, the well-behaved "baby" of an extended Italian American family, and spoiled Valerie, who has one leg paralyzed from a freak accident.