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Eight-year-old Ivy Cordelia spends the summer of 1936 in Atlantic City with her photographer father, and dreams of being the girl who perches on a horse as it dives into a tank of water.

Twelve-year-old Clare flees an unhappy home life and tries to survive on the streets of Atlantic City with a small gang of homeless kids, each of whom has a secret reason for distrusting society.

When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read her tiger eyes.

Joe and Frank Hardy, agents of American Teens Against Crime, uncover a wealth of secrets when they set out to find Kathy Boutry, a college reporter who was about to blow the whistle on several criminals.

"Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does are laid out in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel, just west of town.

"Atlantic City, 1946. Bill, Constance and Brant can't help but feel like they are missing out on life.