Every year, at the last one-room schoolhouse in the county, there is a special graduation ceremony for the sixth-graders. Everyone in town has gone through it, and no one is allowed to discuss it. Becky and her four classmates have been preparing for...
Five six-graders are about to face the secret graduation ceremony, known as "going through the gate" to the townspeople, but the children have no idea what to expect and wonder why no one will talk to them about it....
Fourteen-year-old Susanna, stung by the betrayal of a friend, retreats deep within herself--and to the room of her great-uncle who has not left the house in twenty years--until a determined neighbor draws her out....
For thirteen-year-old Ellsworth, family has always been just him and his dad. That’s all Ellsworth thought he wanted. But then the dreams start. Dreams of houses surrounding a beautiful green square. Suddenly a letter arrives, inviting Ellsworth to...