Matthew moves to a new trailer with promise from his mother of a room all to himself, but when relatives come to visit, Matthew decides to invite guests of his own.
Baker is unhappy about leaving Seattle and his job as director of his grandmother's puppet shows, but he soon discovers that the kids in Texas aren't much different than in his old school.
When her father's death results in the loss of her house and garden and a move into a shabby apartment house, twelve-year-old Maryanne adjusts with the help of new friends and a new garden.
After receiving an ominous fortune in a fortune cookie and then breaking an antique mirror, eleven-year-old Mary Ellen endures a run of bad luck, starting with the news that her best friend Justine is moving to Paris.
When Annie, her mother, and baby brother move to a new home, they have a lot of work to do, but Annie finds joy at the house of a neighbor who plays piano.
When her family moves from Chicago to the wilds of Wisconsin and Bits has trouble making new friends at school, she spends her time trying to tame a deer in the woods near her house.
After the death of her mother, Julie leaves her grandmother's home to join her father in a new town where she must adjust to new friends and tries to save a tree threatened by a new parking lot.
In 1925 fourteen-year-old John, an Oklahoma farm boy, has to accept many changes in his life when his father takes a job on a pineapple plantation in Hawaii and the family moves there.
When thirteen-year-old Luz and her family move from Chicago to her stepfather's native home of Puerto Rico, she and her brother Rome struggle to adjust and to decide where it is they really belong.
