Haynes, Mary

Twelve-year-old William discovers his stepfather has created a machine capable of changing the printed word and fears that his intentions are sinister.

After a chemical accident kills off most of the world's population, twelve-year-old Pokey escapes from the regimentation of the Children's Concern and finds a new life and hope for the future with a group of elderly people living in West Virginia.

Eleven-year-old Molly has gotten off on the wrong foot in her new town by insulting the mayor's daughter, but with the help of her baseball prowess and two friends she hopes to redeem herself during the Fourth of July parade.

Follows the up-and-down fortunes of an iron pot belly stove from its manufacture on 1888 through a century of changing fashions in heating.

While her artist father is away trying to arrange a much-needed exhibition, thirteen-year-old Lily stays alone at the beach cottage in which they've spent the summer and discovers her own inner strengths and resources and some evidence of an artistic talent that she's always been afraid to test.