Christina and Grant become caught up in an otherworldly mystery when they travel to Nevada and learn their friends, who have a ranch near Area 51, have been dealing with disappearing cattle.
When Papa remarries Ida is looking forward to having a mother again. Buth soon she senses something is very wrong and her life and Papa's may be in danger.
Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre describe in their own voices their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
In New York City during the Depression, fourteen-year-old Ivy tries to cope with feelings of not belonging in her elegant private school and with her father's losing his job.
Karen and Andrew are lucky to have two families, but sometimes they miss spending time with Daddy. Karen tries to find a way for them to spend equal time with both Mommy and Daddy.
Eleven-year-old Dorsy and her family come to understand each other better when they are caught in the path of the British Army advancing on Washington in the summer of 1814.