Corcoran, Barbara

After moving with her lively family to the small town where her father grew up, thirteen-year-old Tracy discovers that she is adopted, a surprise that brings her new insights into what constitutes a family.

In Boston during the early days of the Great Depression, Annah's affluent lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father loses his banking job and Annah is sent to live with her aunt on a New Hampshire island where she meets a destitute but spunky girl named Dodie.

A teachers' strike upsets the life of a high school student who has good friends among the teachers and a father on the school board.

En route to stay with a relative she has never seen, fourteen-year-old Stevie meets three other young people with no place to live and takes a detour with them into a new life in the New Hampshire woods.

Forced to move to a new town just as she thinks she is finally starting to fit in with other young people, twelve-year-old Kelly finds her feeling of alienation slowly fading as she builds relationships with new family and friends.

The serious, responsible girl of the family has to contend with a number of problems, both funny and not so funny, when her mother has to have an operation.

Two girls stumble upon things at their recently reopened camp that make them believe someone has been living there during the years the camp was deserted.

On the eve of World War II a young girl handicapped by a reading disability tries to cope with family problems and the question of her future.

While her parents discuss possible divorce, sixteen-year-old Rachel spends the summer with her grandparents and realizes everyone has problems, many more serious than hers.

Delighted when her prayers for an Irish wolfhound are answered, thirteen-year-old Annie, living in a small Maine town where her father is an Episcopal minister, soon finds herself in trouble when she tries to deal with the consequences of the large dog's playful curiosity.