Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
Josh Lewis is unwillingly drawn into the computer experiments of Aaron, his friend and fellow classmate at an exclusive New York private school, and the two find themselves uncontrollably transported through space and time.
While dealing with changes at home, sixth-grader Josh and his friend Aaron use the computer at their New York prep school to travel through time, learning some secrets from the school's past and improving Josh's home situation.
Blossom is a high-school freshman and possessor of psychic powers. She contacts the spirit of an Egyptian princess dead for 3500 years and helps her regain her tomb, and also saves a suffragette school teacher from losing her job.
As the recipient of threatening, obscene notes and phone calls, a high school girl becomes terrifyingly aware that she is under constant observation by a psychotic.
After being involved in the brittle, superficial world of a beauty contest, a country girl appreciates even more the solid values of her Indiana farm life.