A fifteen-year-old Explorer Scout's sense of danger is aroused by the boyfriend of a teenager she meets while helping at the police station screening calls.
Although he is afraid of Andrew Aldie, twelve-year-old Chris Cooper agrees to help his friend Finn Lochlan look for a way to stop Andrew's father from opening a gravel pit near their Scottish village.
A boy's opportunity to visit a remote Scottish island, romanticized--he discovers the hard way--by his grandfather, helps him to mend his relationship with his "failure" father and look to the future.
Thirteen-year-old Mattie seeks independence from her identical twin sister Pru by helping her mother manage the campaign of a candidate for city council. Sequel to "My Sister is Driving Me Crazy.".
