In 1896, fourteen-year-old "giant" Fern "Babe" Killingsworth joins a travelling carnival where she befriends a dwarf and some animals, with whom she escapes the clutches of a corrupt businessman.
"The story of Liberty Justice Jones, a sixteen-year-old girl living on a Christmas tree farm in Depression-era Texas. When hard times fall on the family, it is up to Liberty to risk everything to save the farm and realize her dreams"--Provided by publisher.
Near the end of World War II, Ian McKenzie is sent to a summer camp to tame his wild ways, and while he is there he works with his cabin of misfits to build a chimney for the camp, learning along the way how to solve problems.
When a wealthy Japanese American resort owner in a small, sleepy Oregon coastal town becomes the prime target of an angry mob, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Ruby Opal Pearl "Jewels" Stokes comes to his defense.
In 1918, having run away from the Washington State lumber camp she calls home, a fourteen-year-old half-Chinese albino named Cordy makes her way to Seattle and finds work in a carnival.
While visiting her grandmother during the summer of 1944, a fourteen-year-old girl helps to heal the wounds that have been inflicted upon three generations of women.
In 1918, having run away from the Washington State lumber camp she calls home, a fourteen-year-old half-Chinese albino named Cordy makes her way to Seattle and finds work in a carnival.
