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Part 1 in this trilogy is set in the American south (Charleston primarily) one year prior to the civil war. It focuses on three characters who are children at a fictional schoolhouse in Charleston (Charleston did not have a public school system at that time) who challenge their racist schoolmaster, a former preacher on a slave ship on the high seas. Jack is at the center of the revolt against "Master Whittemore" and ultimately defeats him during a "trial" that master conducts in his little schoolhouse. This trial is one of the many humorous parts of the book. Master, after some reflection,...

A Jewish resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Anna reluctantly forms a relationship with a Treblinka death camp guard who, after the war ends, is hunted by an Auschwitz survivor who seeks to execute him for mass murder. At the novel's outset, the idealistic Anna tells her university friends in Warsaw that they should meet the German invaders with Tolstoyan passive resistance, not with violence. But Anna learns that extermination of the Jews is the grand plan as she desperately tries to save ghetto children and herself. Julian Kravetz, a New York City novelist, discovers the...

Jack: Book 2 is a fantastic high seas adventure for ages 13 (advanced readers) to 110. It transitions nicely from Jack: Book 1, which ends with Jack's and Jeremy's teacher, Master Whittemore - in earlier times, a 'preacher' on slave ships sailing the Middle Passage - quitting teaching after a devastating classroom humiliation at the hands of Jack. Whittemore returns to the sea on what Jeremy and Jack believe is a suicide mission. Jack - who hated master in Book 1 - follows him to sea while recruiting his best friend - the reluctant Jeremy who invariably is skeptical of Jack's grand adventure...

When Leo and his family celebrate his birthday beneath their pink coral reef, he has no idea of the adventures awaiting him later that day after Lena and Libby, his childhood friends, persuade him to go exploring in a deep green kelp forest. There they become lost, take the bait in a lobster trap and panic turns to terror. The trap rises and they enter a world they have never seen. Fortunately two kind humans buy them from a grocery store and set them free.