Whenever Alexandra Caroline O'Rourke, AKA Alex, met with trouble, she generally blamed her younger sister, Jackie. And Alex's sudden engagement to marry a Viking prince, against her will, probably classified...

"I see a vast city, whose glory will touch the stars!" Alex is a girl on a mission. If only she knew what that mission was. Jackie has found a rather old and unusual guidebook. Their time in Prague, full...

Winner of the 2011 Reader Views Literary Award for Historical Fiction.First they tried to deny her.Then they tried to destroy her.But she survived to discover nuclear fissionand spark the race for the...

"Jackie, be realistic," cried Alex. "It will never work. He's too old for you.""Lots of girls date older men," replied Jackie."Yes, but not one hundred thousand years older.""You're exaggerating. It's...

Alexandra O'Rourke, aged 16, is not a happy camper. It's New Year's Eve. She should be partying in San Diego with her friends, but instead she is stuck in Boston, with just her younger sister, Jackie,...