Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders.".
The author traces her brother's spiritual journey and its effects on her family as their house becomes a haven for hippies, gurus, and charlatans flooding India.
Episodes in the life of Alaskan teenager, Norman Tuttle, as he grows from ages thirteen to fifteen, falls in love for the first time, and deepens his relationship with his father.
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.
Eleven-year-old Pecola prayed that she would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting, her father would stop drinking, and her brother would stop running away.
The Randalls come to a new understanding of family support and love when the family's youngest member, sixteen-year-old Annie dies in a riding accident.
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
