Lucky, having met a potential best friend who was visiting her uncle who lives in Hard Pan, California, devises a plan to get the young girl back to the town.
After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special momento of her past.
Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf.
Lucy, an adopted child from Mexico, is convinced that her family background is too complicated for her to make the family tree she is supposed to create for a homework assignment.
As both she and her new little brother are adopted, Sarah's mother, father, and grandfather explain what adoption and being part of a family are all about.