Fifteen year-old Tamura Tierney is determined to become a model. Obsessed with fashion, make up, hair and clothes, she’s not going to let the fact that she’s living in her third foster home, with the kind but style-challenged Shirl and Herb stop her from fulfilling her dreams.
Eighty-nine year old Miss Jean Barclay, may be [...]
Fourteen year-old Dana is a runaway, living on the streets of Toronto. Begging for spare change to buy coffee and a doughnut, and protecting her rapidly dwindling possessions from thieves is a far cry from her comfortable life in the suburbs, but she cannot go home.
Fortunately, Dana is adopted into a street family. [...]
In this final story of Allende’s trilogy, Nadia Santos and Alex Cold travel with his grandmother, Kate Cold, a writer for International Geographic, a photographer and a larger-than-life female pilot named Angie Ninderera into the heart of the African jungle at the behest of Brother Fernando, a Catholic missionary who is looking for two missionaries [...]
Commissioned by International Geographic to write an article about the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, writer Kate Cold decides to invite her 15-year-old grandson, Alex, and his Brazilian friend, 13-year-old Nadia, to accompany her to the fabled and inaccessible kingdom nestled high in the Himalayas. Alex and Nadia are delighted to be reunited after [...]
