Madeline is 13 years old, as are her two friends, and nothing looks the same to her. Her sister is leaving to study medicine, and there's Freddy who's looking at her as no one has...

10-year-old Harriet dreams of leaving her home, where she doesn't feel she's needed by her mother and sister Gwen. When her mother dies in a car accident, she really starts to...

Rosa, 13, due to a severe malformation in one leg, is forced to wear a wooden prosthesis. His father is a penniless painter, while his mother, a famous opera singer, has abandoned...

Nat, a penniless writer, sells a fairytale to the producer Lampostil who, distorted the story, makes a film of all sex and violence. The writer then decided to "enter" the young...

A Jewish family leaves Germany after surviving the Holocaust and heads to Norway. Mendel, their youngest son, is too young to make sense of the Holocaust but tries to comprehend...

13 year old Kim feels at home in the wilderness. One night, nature's soul appears to him in the form of an Indian, and designates him nature's protector. Kim decides to remain out...

Sasha, 10, lives in Perm in Russia. The mother is under a train and nobody tells him how it happened. The father, destroyed by the loss of his wife, works as a guard in a prison...

John Langer, a crusty old civic engineer, has an arsenal full of memories. With irreverent wit, he rattles on, in his irascible humorous style, burning his spicy stories into the...