Sixteen-year-old Marianne, lonely and uncomfortable at the expensive girls' school she attends, finds an unexpected friend in her mother's new lodger, Abe Shonfeld, a young piano teacher who has been blind since birth.
Twelve-year-old Jodie, disabled by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and no longer able to ride her beloved horse Monarch, faces a crisis when the two of them are alone at her remote Australia home and a devastating fire approaches.
Sixteen-year-old Tabby wonders what connection lies between her boss, a blind dog breeder, and the sinister death threats to his twin brother who has arrived to judge an important national show.
While visiting her aunt at Cape Cod, Fran accepts a job as a companion to a crippled girl whose unhappiness and frustration make their relationship increasingly difficult.
The well-known author of historical novels for young people describes her childhood and youth and her struggles with the devastating effects of rheumatoid arthritis.
Thirteen-year-old Kirsty, confined to a wheelchair by a car accident, finds herself living with a new stepmother and stepsister in a strange old house formerly inhabited by a witch who wants it back.
