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Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.

Ever since Walker's older brother Noah died, his mother has not been able to stop crying. Walker has questions for God, angry questions, wondering why if God really wanted to help him that he let Noah die in the first place. Walker is shocked when his prayer for help is answered with the arrival of Jesus himself, who seems a bit less reverent than Walker was expecting.

Lydia Hawkins, a daughter of poverty living in the Appalachian Mountains, is sent to live with her uncle and aunt after her brother and grandmother die and her mother is unjustly jailed. Subjected to ridicule at her new school because of her homemade clothes, Appalachian accent, and her mother's incarceration, she is determined to overcome this and find a way to clear her mother's name.

When the Love family arrives in Binder, Ark., on a three-day preaching tour, they decide to extend their stay after encountering an injustice involving a young boy named Jimmy.

Billy has spent his almost-sixteen years with four cardinal points--Mother, Christ, Bible, and Home-school--but when he sets off on a wild road trip to find the father he thought was dead, he learns much about himself and life.

After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms with what has happened to their family.

Sixteen-year-old Ronald Earl begins to doubt his healing powers in Texas when he learns that a girl he has healed appears later in another Texas town wearing the same blue dress. Ronald feels haunted by this strange appearance.

When her grandmother takes fourteen-year-old Agnes, her younger brother, and best friend Honey and escapes Mount Blessing, a Connecticut religious commune, Agnes clings to the faith she loves while Honey looks toward a future free of control, cruelty, and preferential treatment.

After her older sister Heather, enthusiastic about changing the world, returns from doing medical missionary work in Uganda, seventeen-year-old Amber feels ignored and confused about her own future and decides to go back to Africa in Heather's place.

Hannah Brown, granddaughter of the most active abolitionist in slave-holding Northern Virginia, corresponds with Sarah Smith, daughter of conductors on the Underground Railroad in the free state of Pennsylvania.