Cass, whose mother has died and been replaced with a new stepmother who is cold and distant, feels connected to someone from the past when she discovers a star brooch and diary that belonged to Beatrice, a girl who lived in the same house five generations earlier and also had problems with a nasty stepmother.
When Willow Whitecloud moves into January's home for the summer, the two girls become fast friends; however, January suspects Williow might be involved in illegal activity that threatens the natural world she has taught January to respect.
Belle must put aside her struggle to become a church bell ringer when those she loves are threatened during the Battle of Batoche, part of the Riel Rebellion.
Georgia, a girl growing up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, finds her spirits lifted when she finds and cares for a horse which survived a devastating local flood.
A young Metis boy who lives with his family near the trading post of Fort William earns the status of a true voyageur when he helps a representative of the North West Company whose canoe has been damaged in a storm reach the annual rendezvous celebration.
In a diary covering the years 1846 to 1848, a young Metis teenager describes her journey from St. Eustace, Qu?bec, to St. Paul, Minnesota, where she settles with her family and decides to become a teacher.
Twelve-year-old Matthew Dunn learns about the traditional ways of his Chipewyan, Cree, and M?tis ancestors on a trip to Fort Chipewyan, in Alberta, Canada.
Running away from a vicious trapper, seven-year-old Ben MacDonald is separated from his family and eventually ends up on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, where he is taken in by a tribe of Metis Indians.
