When Kelly Louise and her mother move to Heaven, Iowa, to live with her grandmother and cousin, she learns a terrible secret about a baby recently left to die in a corn field and must decide whether or not to tell the truth.
Faith Fairchild looks for a connection between the death of a teenage drug addict whose body was found in an antique sleigh, and the discovery of a newborn baby boy in the manger of spinster Mary Bethany's barn on Christmas Eve.
In three episodic scenes of their family life, a fifteen-year-old girl describes the troubled interrelationships, alternating between love and hate, between herself and her siblings and their self-absorbed, neglectful, and often absent mother.
April Fools' Day is long and hard for the third-grade Huit octuplets, but it is nothing compared to the challenges of Tax Day, through which Jackie discovers her special power and gift and learns more about their parents' mysterious disappearance.