As she travels from sister to sister in search of a home after the death of their mother, a twelve-year-old country girl discovers many things about herself and her family including why she was never given a name at birth.
Jonathan, an adopted child with no siblings, hopes that the arrival of storks to his German neighborhood will signal the arrival of a new baby brother.
Leaving home for the first time to live with her sister, 16-year-old Billie Jo tries not to be afraid of the new life ahead of her, but the mysterious events surrounding the heavy metal box a new friend gives her make it hard.
Eleven-year-old Margo, who has always been thought of as nothing more than a sweet little angel, gains confidence and the ability to make people admire her when she joins the school band and starts special music lessons with three friends.
In 1937 in southeastern Missouri, eleven-year-old Rass, son of a proud sharecropper, proves his worth when a flood destroys his family's home and forces his best friend, an elderly black man, into hiding from the Ku Klux Klan.
Nine-year-old Margaret, confined to a wheelchair by spina bifida, longs for a new, lightweight "sportsmodel" chair so that she can speed around as fast as the athletic brother with whom she has an ongoing rivalry.
A first grader who is very good at balancing objects while in her wheelchair and on her crutches thinks up her greatest balancing act ever to benefit the school carnival.
Text and photographs show Misty, a little girl with Down syndrome, and her father reviewing her day's activities in their search for her stuffed monkey.
