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Ronan, fifteen, the youngest and lowliest recruit to Ireland's secret Garda, faces untold danger from the wee people while trying to prove his imprisoned parents were framed.

Milo hace un largo viaje en metro. Para pasar el tiempo, observa a la gente a su alrededor y hace dibujos de como se imagina que son sus vidas. Esta el hombre de bigotes con un crucigrama; Milo lo dibuja jugando al solitario en un apartamento desordenado. Esta la mujer vestida de novia; Milo la dibuja en una gran ceremonia en la catedral. Y luego esta el chico del traje; Milo lo dibuja llegando a su hogar, que es un castillo. Pero que pasa si la vida...

"Amelie learns about collective care, mutual aid, and abolitionist ideas as they help their parents get ready for the annual Prisoners' Justice Day." -- Provided by publisher.

With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.

While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.

Caroline Abbott and her mother make a dangerous journey across Lake Ontario to the British fort where Papa is being held prisoner, and when Mama is unable to see him, it is up to Caroline to pass Papa a secret message right under the nose of a British guard.