It was the one baby-sitting job Laurel should never have taken. Laurel arrives at Hoop Lake expecting her summer to be as boring as usual. She's surprised when she finds new people at the lake - a young sculptor named Ivan, and his baby daughter, ...
Eleven-year-old Callie tries to cope with her new responsibilities when the family's changed circumstances force them to move to a new San Francisco neighborhood and leave her in charge of her younger brother...
Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to resc...