Former Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya auctions off her jewelry collection and becomes overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, the friends she left behind amidst Stalinist aggression, and the dark secret that brought her to a new life in Boston.

Brought over from Russia to help NASA prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth, seventeen-year-old physics genius Yuri feels awkward and alone until he meets free-spirited Dovie.

Seventy years of the transformation of Lillian Dunkle and her extraordinary life as an immigrant, orphan, entrepreneur and the persona she crafts for herself as the face of the very successful Dunkle's Famous Ice Cream. Setenta años de la transformación de Lillian Dunkle y su extraordinaria vida como inmigrante, huérfano, empresario y el personaje que ella hace por sí misma como la cara de la muy acertada Dunkle helado famoso.

Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world -- the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions -- is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter, has miraculously taken an interest in him. But all is not right in Ilya's world:...

A misfit girl and her brother attend summer camp, where they struggle with primitive plumbing, snobby tentmates, and boys-versus-girls competitions.