Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.
Looks at the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan, focusing on places to visit, events, the land and the climate, history, education, and the people who live there.
Eighteen-year-old Emma, a freshman at Indiana University, has enough trouble trying to figure out relationships but when her father wins fifty million dollars in a lottery, life becomes even more confusing and complicated.
George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the Amberson family fortune, sets the wealthy society clan on the path to financial ruin in the late nineteenth century.
Describes Indiana's location, land, cities, unique places, and history, and presents brief profiles of famous citizens, a time line, and a fact file that covers the state's nickname, motto, song, population, type of government, and official symbols.
When he and his high-school basketball teammates steal from a fraternity house in their small Indiana town, Nate contends with his guilt, his loyalty to his friends, and his desire to help his older brother who comes under suspicion for the crime.
