Emma tries to help her parents understand that, although their beloved new nanny has made a few mistakes, no one can behave perfectly responsibly all the time.
After she switches schools in the middle of the year and goes to stay with her grandparents, eleven-year-old Jeremy's life is further disrupted when her parents announce from overseas that they are adopting a new baby sister for her.
Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.
in 1848, Joshua and his family leave Missouri and set off for Oregon Country with a wagon train. Nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon.
Emma tries to help her parents understand that, although their beloved new nanny has made a few mistakes, no one can behave perfectly responsibly all the time.
