Zoe, having accustomed herself to life with her veterinarian grandmother and the flock of wild parrots that live in the backyard, is confused about her feelings when her mother arrives to take her to a new home in Los Angeles.
A variation of the familiar Christmas poem in which Sergeant McClaus and an envoy of eight Humvees bring holiday gifts and cheer to soldiers stationed far from home.
In 1861 Charley, a twelve-year-old drummer boy with the Army of the Potomac, is caught up in the excitement and horrors of the Civil War as he travels from Washington towards Antietam.
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.