A defensive twelve-year-old comes to understand her father, a busy Hollywood director planning to remarry, after she is exiled for the summer to the everyday life of her grandmother's house in Houston.
Returning in 1932 to the rural community in Arkansas where she grew up, fifteen-year-old Laurie is torn between staying in the comfortable place she loves and allowing her ambitious mother to aid her burgeoning singing career.
Michael's diary reflects the ups and downs of his eleventh year, as he copes with braces, troublesome relatives, a little sister not yet potty-trained, the school play, and a big spelling bee.
When Trapp's family plans to move from Iowa to New York City, she stays behind on her great-grandparents' farm for the summer and discovers some family secrets that make it easier for her to leave the life she has always known.
Eleven-year-old Clara's life is enriched by her friendship with the vibrant Nettie, whose family is so different from her own, but then a serious brain condition threatens to change Nettie forever.
In the early 1960s, ten-year-old Rachel sees changes in her family and her small Southern town as she tries to sort out how she feels about her young black maid, racial prejudice, and her responsibility for her own life.
In 1943, as she waits for her father to come home on leave, a sixth-grade girl in a midwestern town tries to find something special to do for the war effort, such as catching a German spy.
Her experiences at a summer camp in the California mountains in 1945 gives twelve-year-old Annie Platt new insight into her overprotective family of German-Jewish immigrants.
With the family thrown into a turmoil by the incessant crying of colicky, three-month-old Meredith, only twelve-year-old Case seems to notice that Meredith's baby sitter is behaving very oddly. Sequel to "Split Sisters.".
