On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry.  As the Lipari carried Janine and her family to Casablanca on the first leg of a perilous journey to safety in Cuba, she would read through her tears

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Poet Gary Soto captures the voices of young people as they venture toward their first kiss, brood over bruised hearts, and feel the thrill of first love.

We've been waiting for an hour. That's what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That's the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed. At one point or another, we've all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we'd like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? These...

El año 1996 fue el que cambió todo para Maggie Dawes. Enviada a los 16 años a vivir con una tía que apenas conocía en Ocracoke, un pueblo remoto de Carolina del Norte, solo podía pensar en los amigos y la familia que dejó atrás. Hasta que conoció a Bryce Trickett, uno de los pocos adolescentes en la isla. Apuesto, genuino y recién admitido en West Point, Bryce le mostró cuánto había que amar en la ciudad costera azotada por el viento...