Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.
Six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves the home of his widowed father, in King County Vermont, to live with his grandparents on their farm, and comes of age in a rural town where fights at the one-room schoolhouse, family reunions, and adventures at the county fair shape him into a man.
Rob is caught up in his friend Soup's plan to help their town of Learning, Vermont, celebrate the Fourth of July with a suitable pageant that sets the record straight about several of the town's citizens.
A radio contest, the impending visit of actor Sinker O. Sailor to their small Vermont town, and rumors of a black pearl in Wet Lake spur Soup and Rob on to a spectacular nautical disaster.
Soup's crazy plan to help his town's basketball team to victory includes constructing a musical instrument called a spitzentootle and snaring the evil Janice Riker in an unpleasant trap.
In a small Vermont town, Lillian becomes the town bully's latest target, and, after he succeeds in running her boyfriend out of town, Lillian vows to get even and turns to a crafty old man and a naive youth for help.
Samantha, stuck at a Vermont inn over winter break with her dad, brother, and new stepmom, has decided to stay indoors and sulk through the vacation, but she changes her mind when she meets Drew, a handsome ski instructor, and Eric, the desk clerk.
Charlotte McGuffey has always tried to be perfect and has trusted the power of her thoughts to protect her from life's troubles, but when her husband dies, leaving her to raise their two sons on her own, Charlotte realizes her problems are too complex for her to master with the power of her mind alone.
