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Rebecca is sent to summer camp in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, where she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive.

Bullied relentlessly, Hiram Goldfarb, a Jewish immigrant in nineteenth-century New York City, learns bareknuckle fighting from a former slave wanted for a heinous crime in the South.

"Seventh-grader Joseph Friedman is friendless and puny, with ADD to boot.

Thirteen-year-old Ari faces what it is to be a man while dealing with a cross-country move, his parents' separation, being bullied for his weight, and belatedly starting bar mitzvah preparations.