The girls of the mother-daughter book club find their holiday family vacations going wrong when Megan and Becca both fall for the son of the cruise ship's captain, Cassidy and her family start to feel homesick while visiting Laguna Beach, and Emma and Jess see their plans changing by a disastrous sledding accident.
Kat accompanies her best friend Jac to a musicians' conference at the Whispering Pines Mountain House, where she works to free the spirit of a dead medium and helps Jac resolve a serious conflict.
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
Mary Anne's father never talks about her mom, who died when she was a baby, so she goes up to the attic and looks for anything she can find that will tell her more about her mother.
A year after her mother has deserted the family, eleven-year-old Shelby goes to stay with her, deep in the Louisiana bayou, where they both confront old hurts and regrets.
Tallahassee lives with her freespirited mother, but when Mother goes to L.A. to try her luck in TV and movies, Tallahassee goes with her uncle whose conventional lifestyle makes her question her mother's values--and her own.
