When a woman's son is found to be bullying a young boy at their middle school, the mother will go to any length to prevent her son from being labeled the perpetrator. As the bullied student is being painted as the bully, he struggles with challenges from school authority, his family, and his peers. As the increasingly hostile and dangerous intentions of the woman continue, he realizes that she will do anything humanly possible to stop him from leaking...

Much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America's central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. And even as Chicago led the way in creating mass-market culture, its artists pushed back in their own distinct voices. Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story...