When Rowena's handsome English teacher invites her to a poetry reading, the shy high school girl changes overnight from a wallflower to an attractive, much-sought-after femme fatale.
Convinced that she is destined for theatrical stardom, starstruck Cynthia is sure that her discovery is imminent when a famous movie star comes to her small New York town to make a film.
During the summer while she is on her own, eleven-year-old Heather forms a friendship with an old, reclusive man who spends his days tending his garden.
After a summer spent away in Connecticut, twelve-year-old Fran looks forward to resuming her usual activities with her best friend Sarah, but Sarah has a new friend that seems to claim all her time and attention.
Holly wishes that she had a "normal" mother instead of a fugitive from the Sixties who runs an antique shop filled with what most people think is junk.
