Katy spends the summer in the mountains with her mother, an aspiring writer, and learns a great deal about life from her adventurous new friend Lena May.
Katie, whose family is not sympathetic to the rebel soldiers during the American Revolution, hides under the clothes in her mother's wedding trunk when they invade her home.
After moving into an old house in a small New England town, nine-year-old Rosemary discovers that the nearby woods conceal a 150-year-old witch, who once lived in the house and is using her magic to take it back.