Sam's friend Mary Ann helps him make a special valentine for Tiffany, but when Tiffany does not even notice it, Sam realizes who is really special. Includes facts about the history of Valentine's Day.

Illustrations and text tell a story about Hunter the Racoon who enjoys playing with his big sister, Glenna, except when she's bossy.

"In this edge-of-your-seat novel packed with historical photographs, two cousins divided by the Cold War must work together or risk loosing everything. Berlin, 1961. Drew is an army brat in West Berlin, where US soldiers like his dad hold a tiny outpost of democracy against Communist Russia and occupied East Germany. Drew's cousin Matthias has grown up across the city's border on streets ruled by secret police and anti-American propaganda. From enemy...

"Two British brothers adjust to life in Virginia after escaping the Blitz during World War II"--

In 1950s Washington, D.C., teenaged Richard, a bookworm whose father works for the FBI, experiences effects of McCarthyism, beginning with book banning and ending with a threat to his half-Czech friend.

In fifteenth-century Florence, the dashing Venetian ambassador commissions young Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his Platonic love, Ginevra de' Benci, a well-educated, teenaged poet in a passionless marriage, propelling her into the world of art, politics, and romance, with all of its complications.