A brilliant sixteen-year-old oddball, having trouble adjusting to his conventional high school, clashes with an emotionally disturbed teacher and comes upon some important truths about life and his place in it....
Based on a true story, this historical novel charts the emotional storm that breaks over 12-year-old Nora when she and her mother have very different ideas about how to care for two survivors of a burning steam ship: an orphaned boy, Zenas, and the e...