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Summer isn't looking good for Alana Alcott, an urban teacher of gifted students. She's been court ordered to teach summer school with Outward Bound instructor Mike Reynolds. Their students? Five unruly foster kids whose stories of abandonment mirror Alana's own childhood more than she wants to admit.

Mike, in particular, initially chafes on Alana's nerves. She sees him as an overgrown Boy Scout, promoting a nature-to-nurture philosophy that may or may not help their troubled students. And troubled they certainly are, with problems ranging from behavioral issues to a looming gang...

Rescuing Children is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who stepped into the shadows to liberate children from disease, destitution, and despair.

Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto right under the Nazis' noses.

Dr. Thomas Barnardo started orphanages for the children of London's East End.

Bertha Bracey organized the Kindertransport during WWII, which saved ten thousand children from Nazi extermination.

"Rescuing Children" is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who stepped into the shadows to liberate children from disease, destitution, and despair.

Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto right under the Nazis' noses.

Dr. Thomas Barnardo started orphanages for the children of London's East End.

Bertha Bracey organized the Kindertransport during WWII, which saved ten thousand children from Nazi extermination.

Charles Loring Brace...