Eleven-year-old Jessica is excited about her new class project. She gets to research the animal of her choice and with her best friend and project partner Margaret give a multimedia presentation on the subject in front of the entire class. Then a...

For Jack, life is tough at the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings, where he has to avoid trouble with the wrathful Schoolmaster Bane and Edwin, the school bully. But when he turns twelve, trouble finds him. Apprenticed to a bookkeepe...