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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.

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.

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.