Fifteen year-old Young Cathy Howe is sassy, self-assured and often acts too big for her britches. Three senior girls in her high school plot to take her down a peg with some private stripping, strapping and general humiliation. Everyone gets more than they expected.
The war started when it seemed unlikely that there would be any war at all. Now, it was full participation by all the citizens of the republic and Sniper Joe's libido was in full court press looking for available nubile females.
Fourteen-year-old Jim Caldwell's father apprenticed his second son to go to sea as cabin boy to the HMS Royal Sovereign's captain, Sir Edmund Doman, with the best intentions of giving his son a future in the British Navy in the waning years of the eighteenth century. Little did he or Jim know what a "sailors' poke" was and how that would apply to Jim.