Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldly father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.

Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.

Elsie and Edward marry and take over her inherited estate in the Louisiana Bayou, where they struggle to raise four children in a country on the brink of civil war.

The inhabitants of the small town of Mitford join together at Christmas time for a fun-filled snowman-building contest, complete with hot chocolate, doughnuts, and the joy of the holiday season.

Elsie shares her faith with her three stepgrandchildren, Max, Lulu, and Gracie, teaching them lessons about good character and obedience while their father is away at sea; and the family continues to grow as young Elsie and her husband Lester become parents to a son, and Violet gives birth to a daughter.

The story of an eleven year old boy whose one intense desire is that he have a colt of his own. The whole action of the story takes place against the pattern of a ranch devoted to raising blooded horses, out in Wyoming. At last his wish is granted, and he chooses his yearling, against all advice. The story is centered on the process of winning 'Flicka' and of proving the rightness of his choice.

Ryan is caught between two friends who both want to be her best friend, her brother ruins her latest baking project, and a classmate keeps teasing her at school, yet Ryan still looks for a way to see the bright side of things and not let anything steal her joy.

In the post-Civil War South, young wife and mother Elsie Dinsmore Travilla is busy but content caring for her husband and five children, but conflict looms as the newly formed KKK begins to grow.

"Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 001. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with famous relatives, fancy laptops, and major connections!...