Sam is almost 11 when he discovers a locked box in the attic above his grandfather Mack's room, and a piece of paper that says he was kidnapped. There are lots of other words, but Sam has always had...

Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a...

Many listeners of Nory Ryan’s Song wondered what happened to Nory, who set out alone on the road to Galway, hoping to find her family and sail for...

Hollis Woods was named after the place where she was abandoned as a baby. Hollis is now 12-years-old and has been in many foster homes. She's a mountain of trouble, quick to run away, even from the...

Brooklyn, 1875: Bird Mallon lives on Water Street where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built. Bird wants nothing more in life than to be brave enough to be a healer,...

Meggie Dillon’s life has been turned upside down by World War II. Her older brother Eddie enlisted and was shipped off to fight in Europe. And people say that anywhere else Grandpa would be turned...