Artistic fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for "loser," so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie, her reputation plummets.
Third-grader Clementine's school field trip to Plimoth Plantation leads to all kind of discoveries, from fourth grade eating rules to the source of the stink on the bus.
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
After learning about the American Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Judy Moody makes her own Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough to have more freedoms, such as a larger allowance and her own bathroom.
In 1959 Bernard is a young Red Sox fan, troubled by the lack of Black players in major league baseball, especially as there are none at all on his favorite team--but change is coming in the form of a rookie named Pumpsie Green.
A young girl remembers her childhood memory of riding the bus with Bill a favorite driver. She recalls the day her mother, and she and her little sister went to Boston to shop at Filene's Basement. Usually after shopping they went to Bailey's for ice cream sundaes but on this particular day they went to a bakery and bought four cannoli and saved one for Bill to enjoy.
When Emma's parents vanish, her brother's college roommate, now her guardian, takes her to Boston, where she discovers that she is a powerful "ghostkeeper," which both explains incidents from her past and presents new dilemmas.
Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.
