As Alice prepares to start her senior year in high school, she begins to wish she could go back to a simpler time, when she did not have to worry about sex, college, growing up, and grief.
While living on his family's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday be a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who becomes involved in a militia movement.
In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits Bismarck, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.
Contains three novels that follow Alice through her first year of high school and the summer after, as she weathers a breakup with her boyfriend Patrick, challenges with family and friends, and a job as a camp counselor.
Seventh grader Alice decides that the only way to stave off personal and social disasters is to be part of the crowd, especially the "in" crowd, no matter how boring and, potentially, difficult.
Lynn is more than ever convinced that their neighbor, Mrs.Tuggle, is involved in witchcraft but finds it difficult to convince her family of the old woman's evil.
During the summer she spends with a married cousin, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a small town preacher not only discovers secrets which divide her family, but experiences, for the first time, uncertainties about her life.
Roxie Warbler, the niece of a famous explorer, follows Uncle Dangerfoot's advice on how to survive any crisis when she becomes stranded on an island with a gang of school bullies and a pair of murderous bank robbers.
