Fourteen-year-old Abby seeks both her father and the secret of a handsome but mysterious boy during an arduous journey by wagon train from the middle of the country to the Pacific coast in 1850.
Living with five brothers and sisters, a pet skunk, and two nutty parents, fourth grader Rosie sometimes feels that her family is too busy to appreciate her.
Fourteen-year-old Abby seeks both her father and the secret of a handsome but mysterious boy during an arduous journey by wagon train from the middle of the country to the Pacific coast in 1850.
While helping his grandfather herd and shear his flock of sheep on a small island off the coast of Maine, twelveyear-old Gabe encounters a mysterious woman who may be the ghost of a drowned milkmaid.