After moving to Minot, North Dakota, with his mother, the new female base commander, Air Force dependent Stu Ballentyne gradually becomes aware that something terrible is going on in his neighbor's house.
After years of abuse from his mother and neglect from his father, ninth-grader Sean Parker is headed for trouble until he is sent to do community service at a farm owned by an old man who teaches Sean that he can take control of his own life.
Sandro Birch has a good chance of making the ski team and having a real family with his girlfriend, but first he must deal with his anger against his father, especially after the man returns after a seventeen-year absence.
As his sophomore year in high school begins, fifteen-year-old Shadow joins the forensics team, makes new friends, and struggles to cope with the return of his older brother, who ran away seven years earlier and now faces a murder trial.
Skye, a high school junior, tries to find the time for both family obligations and personal interests, which include caring for her brother who has Down Syndrome, dating her first boyfriend, and swimming competitively.
After moving to Minot, North Dakota, with his mother, the new female base commander, Air Force dependent Stu Ballentyne gradually becomes aware that something terrible is going on in his neighbor's house.
Skye, a high school junior, tries to find the time for both family obligations and personal interests, which include caring for her brother who has Down Syndrome, dating her first boyfriend, and swimming competitively.
As his sophomore year in high school begins, fifteen-year-old Shadow joins the forensics team, makes new friends, and struggles to cope with the return of his older brother, who ran away seven years earlier and now faces a murder trial.
After years of abuse from his mother and neglect from his father, ninth-grader Sean Parker is headed for trouble until he is sent to do community service at a farm owned by an old man who teaches Sean that he can take control of his own life.
