The Reverend Fickett, his wife, and four children live comfortably in a privileged and conservative small town in California. They adopt Edgar Allan, a black child. The impact on their community and family is described.
Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help her.
When thirteen-year-old Georgia joins a crusade to fight the proposed banning of "The Grapes of Wrath" from her school system, she is shocked when other members of her family do not share her passion for the cause.
