In 1946 twelve-year-old Keely is devastated when her older brother Patrick is paralyzed by polio, and she starts a campaign to reawaken his waning interest in life.
Fifteen-year-old Sara Moone, abandonded at birth and shunted from one foster home to another, finds that she cannot remain aloof from her latest family.
Fourteen-year-old Aggie and her older sisters cause quite a stir when they move to a small town that had been their father's childhood home to claim the legacy that their grandfather left them.
