The story of the four March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, and their trials growing into young ladies in a very poor home in nineteenth-century New England.
Just before the most important violin competition of her career, prodigy Carmen faces critical decisions about her anti-anxiety drug addiction, her controlling mother, and a potential romance with her most talented rival.
Fifteen-year-old Leigh, not thrilled to be packed off for a summer in Ireland acting as personal assistant to her self-absorbed mother Annika, a film star who left when Leigh was only three, finds consolation in Annika's hunky young co-star, and in her own budding acting career.
Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, and delves into the psychological motivations of the characters.
When best friends Natalie, age ten, and Annie, nine, form a detective agency to solve neighborhood mysteries, Natalie hopes it will help her win a school election, while Annie seeks the mother who abandoned her.
Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.
Ginny Young boards a plane to reunite with her mother, whom she has not seen in over three decades, and recalls the summer in 1950s rural Wisconsin when she turned twelve years old and her life changed forever.
