Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes. By Jonathan Auxier. This story is set in two different worlds. One is a world of fantasy, filled with talking animals, vanishing kingdoms, magic eyes and the belief that all things mechanical- locks, clocks, and crossbows, are magical. The other world is one of science, reason, and the belief that the fantasy world is nothing but a fairytale.
Selling Hope by Kristin O'Donnel Tubb is a story about Hope, a girl who grew up on a traveling vaudeville circus that never stays in one place for more than a month, in 1910 when Halley's Comet is creating mass hysteria. Her father is a magician and she is his assistant. Her father loves performing for the audience and believes that by speaking to enough people on stage they can change the world. Hope however is tired of the constant moving and wants to live in a stationary home, like they had before her mother died and then started performing vaudeville.
Vicky is a girl living in a foster home after her mother died and her father "went away". She has to look after her mentally disabled twin sister Rihanna and her little brother who's always ready for a fight. Shes doing a good job of it, defending her sister from the stereotypical mean girl, and stopping her brother from punching everyone he meets, when she's told that the couple they're with can't keep them anymore and they have to split up. What are they going to do?
