When fifteen-year-old Charlotte accepts the position of groom for the horses of impoverished gentry, she discovers there are many ways in which she must prove herself.
During an eventful year in Florida, Anne Dalton begins to understand her commitments to family and friends and to realize that her real interests lie with helping people.
Mysterious events are set in motion when a sixteen-year-old American girl and her family come to France to claim their legacy of an abandoned country cottage.
Devoted to the revolutionary cause, sixteen-year-old Sarah finds it difficult to accept the presence of a young British officer convalescing in their Concord house.
A fictional account of the mid-19th-century voyage, led by Asa Mercer, of several hundred young women going from the east coast to help populate Seattle.
Fourteen-year-old Julie tries to escape her own sense of inadequacy and her friends' talk of boys and parties by devoting herself to raising an orphaned collie pup.