Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black - to show Cassie that having a place of their own the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride, for no matter how others may degrade …
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.. so she decided to run not from somewhere but to somewhere - somewhere large, warm, comfortable, and beautiful. And that was how Claudia and her brother, Jamie, ended up living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - and right in the middle of a mystery that made headlines.