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Fifteen-year-old Margo Allinger is ecstatic when she starts boarding school at The Haywood School. After years of moving around with her family, Margo hopes she’ll finally be able to make some friends. At first everything seems to go well. Margo’s roommates are the popular girls, she makes a good impression on the tennis coach, and Margo even meets Pete. But when things start to go wrong, Margo realizes that it is up to her to overcome her fears and learn to stand up for herself.

Seventeen-year-old Matt Runyon is more than unhappy about his family's move to Cape Cod. He hates the cold, salty weather and his new classmates and their pro-environmental attitudes irritate him to no end, especially opinionated Julie Chamberlain. But when Matt gets the feeling that something isn’t right across the way at Bluff Cottage, he turns to Julie when no one else believes him. And together they find themselves caught up in a terrifying murder drama.

Helen Keller was only six years old when she met Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. The meeting was an eventful one,marking the beginning of a lifelong friendship. It was Bell who guided Helen's parents to a teacher and helped Helen adjust to an extremely public life. "You can do anything you think you can," wrote Dr. Bell to Helen. "Remember that many will be brave in your courage."

Abraham Lincoln grew up poor and without schooling in a Kentucky wilderness and lost his mother before he was ten. It was sparkplug Sally Bush Johnston who married his father, brought a library of books to their log cabin home, and believed in Abe from the beginning. She was an inspiring turning point for young Abe, who went on to become America's sixteenth and most popular and respected president. A spirited introduction to the great American for young readers and a glimpse of how any human can rise to surprising heights. About the Author Judith St. George lives in Connecticut. Matt Faulkner lives in Michigan.