Twelve-year-old Rory begins to lose the passion for making art that she shares with her father after she finds him kissing his female model and fears for the safety of her parents' marriage.
A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels crosscountry with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby.
After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.
Yotsuba gets a new bicycle, and, after having forgotten to leave some expensive milk for Fuuka to try, sets out on an adventure, despite her father's disapproval.
Fiona, struggling to cope with the accidental death of her mother a year earlier, decides she is going to expose all of the liars and fools in her life after her father's girlfriend claims to be a psychic who can communicate with the dead.
Raspberry steals money from a friend in order to get her mother out of a tough situation, and must now face the consequenes and the fear of going down the same path as her drug-addicted father.
Yotsuba, the new girl in town, doesn't really fit in thanks to her green hair and abrasive personality, but she is not afraid to stand up for herself, even if it means going toe-to-toe with a cardboard robot and dealing with herbullying understudy..
Tells the true story of Charlotte Haines, a girl who was forced to leave her home in 1783 at the age of ten and move to Nova Scotia with her uncle's family after her father, a supporter of the American Revolution, disowned her for disobeying his order to stay away from her Loyalist cousins.
