Eleven-year-old Emily attempts to cope with the tragic loss of her older brother and her parents' decision to sell their home which they now feel holds too many sad memories.
While riding a bus with his grandfather from Portland, Maine, to New Jersey to visit his older brother in a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Zach meets some interesting people, including one very special girl.
After the death of his abusive father, eleven-year-old Ricky tries to help his younger brother deal with his residual fears and discovers that running helps him cope with his own anger and the taunts of a bullying classmate.
Ten-year-old Rainy Tucker, with her restless energy and knack for getting into trouble, leaves her family for the first time to go to camp in rural Maine.
Eleven-year-old Emily, still reeling from the car accident that took her older brother's life and badly injured her, uses psychotherapy and ballet dancing to cope with her parents' decision to sell their house--the only place she can still feel and talk to her brother.
After the death of his abusive father, eleven-year-old Ricky tries to help his younger brother deal with his residual fears and discovers that running helps him deal with his own anger and the taunts of a bullying classmate.
