Avi's suspense-filled, seafaring adventure gets a bold new package!It's 1851. Fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick are about to set sail on an epic voyage to America to flee the brutal poverty of Ireland and to be reunited with their father.Eleven-year-old Laurence Kirkle, the son of an English lord, runs away from home to escape his cruel older brother and start a new life in a new world.All three children face...

Carmine is under pressure from his criminal brother; Ciro wants Filippo as his drug courier.

Two very different young men enter the juvenile detention center in Naples.

Carmine and Filippo grow closer; Paola takes the helm as the new prison director.

Ciro's drug deal falls through; Edoardo's poem earns praise from his fellow inmates.

Filippo meets another young piano player as Naditza is transferred to the prison.

Carmine and Filippo stick together, but loyalty is always a big issue behind prison walls.

Filippo and Carmine decide to escape, unaware their lives are in danger.

Crushed by guilt, Massimo decides to give up his role as leader.

The judge arranges for Carmine to return to the correctional facility; Filippo's transfer to Milan comes through.