In this rhyming story accompanied by sign language diagrams, a child enjoys spending time with various family members, including Mommy and Daddy, Auntie Karen and Grandma Rosie, and Baby Jordon and Cousin Nikki.
During a hospital stay after a serious traffic accident, nine-year-old Rose worries about her own injuries and the condition of her father and younger sister and comes to terms with her mother's death.
Thirteen-year-old Evelyn, stuck in an old house in the desert with her obsessed inventor mother, finds a short story written by her long-gone father and comes to a better understanding of both her parents.
Thirteen-year-old Maggie Blume is a perfectionist who struggles with the normal things in life and in school, and she shares her thoughts through poems and songs in her journals.