This story about life's unexpected gifts follows two pairs of girls, one in Ireland and one in the United States, as they move past their difficulties to lives of forgiveness, love, and hope.
Thirteen-year-old Amy is spending a miserable two weeks on a tiny Irish island with feuding relatives when she and her seventeen-year-old Aunt Clover, with whom she writes an advice column, get sent to Miami, Florida.
Thirteen-year-old Amy Green finds herself surrounded by the drama of romance as her mother prepares for her wedding while working with a handsome celebrity on his biography, Aunt Clover dates a singer, and Mills falls for new student Bailey.
A memoir in which the author, a newspaper columnist in Ireland, gives an account of her life, reviewing her accomplishments, and discussing her yearning for a sense of fulfillment.
Describes the effect the mysterious potato blight of 1845 had on the people of Ireland as it destroyed the major source of food for over six million people.
While on a bicycling tour of Ireland, Nancy, Bess, and George find themselves involved in a dangerous mystery when they begin to suspect that someone is targeting the tour members.