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Contains seven stories of some of history's most baffling cases of lost and found, including the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, and the discovery of the HMS "Beagle, " each with a time line, definitions of key words, and related facts.

Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.

Taking care of her younger brother and a loving but flighty mother has made Falcon very responsible for an eleven-year-old, but she needs the help of her great-great aunt, a friendly neighbor, and an ornithologist when she finds a unusual egg in Central Park.

High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother.

When she and her mother move to an apartment in New York City after her parents decide on a trial separation, sixteen-year-old Sammie learns to deal with her mother's fragile mental state, her best friend's self-centeredness, several new friendships, and her own budding sexuality.

Afraid that she will have no where to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.

The discovery of a raven in the chimney of her New York City apartment proves to be a harbinger of change in Kelsey's secure life as her friendship with her best friend fractures and her mother falls in love.

Kate returns to New York after abandoning her family years earlier and finds that her daughter is planning to marry a man Kate once was, and still is, in love with.

Fifteen-year-old Maya learns the cause of the rift she feels between her and her mother and is finally able to come to terms with her divided loyalties when she leaves New York to spend the summer with her grandmother in southern India, the land of her birth.

Talented basketball player Ashlee Carson works hard to win a place in the nationals, but her strict mother wants her to focus on academics and Ashlee must ask her deadbeat father, a former professional basketball player, for support.

Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easy, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister--and when your beloved father dies and you are forced to move things just get worse.

Thirteen-year-old Holly moves to New York with her superstar mom but finds trouble in the form of her father, a new pet, and especially a boy named Shug.

Fourteen-year-old Hudson is a gifted singer/songwriter like her mother, pop sensation Holla Jones, but while working on her debut album, Hudson struggles to convince her mother that she would rather stick with her own, intimate style than follow her mother's path to fame.

Fifteen-year-old Maddie is thrilled to finally take a trip to New York City with her friends Anna and Thomas, but her unpredictable, eccentric mother shows up two days into the trip and threatens to derail everything.

"Jada Sly, artist and spy with a flair for all things French, is on a mission to find her missing mom, who she believes was also a spy"--Provided by publisher.