In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.

Fifteen-year-old Merrilee Campbell longs for a boy to woo her like the heroes in classic stories, and when she, her best friend, Eliza, and her sister, Rory, transfer into Reginald R. Hero High, her wish may be granted.

Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have smuggled past the guards.