Cleaver, Vera

When her adored baby brother suddenly dies of pneumonia, eleven-year-old Belle is left to cope with the devastating effects on her family.

Doubting that her father's death was purlely accidental, a 14-year-old Lucy and her family confront destitution and a formidable adversary in their small town.

A ten-year-old boy adjusts to the changes in his life after his mother dies.

To add to the confusion life has already dealt her, 12-year-old Evelyn encounters some startling contradictions when she and her younger brother visit their sister and brother-in-law who live in Florida.

Although there is no love lost between them, twelve-year-old Wilma is her willful and peppery grandmother's choice for a companion.

Ellen Grae is an imaginative girl in whom simple-minded Ira confides. Ellen finds herself greatly confused between her affection for Ira and her sense of what is right.

The three Luther children, who have raised themselves since their father died, find an abandoned boy near their house in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Fourteen-year-old Fern and her family face challenges and hardships when they move to a farm in South Dakota.

In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies.

Distinctly unenthusiastic when her four-year-old niece, Ella, comes for a prolonged visit, eleven-year-old Amy finds her relationship with the small girl gradually changing her view of herself and life in general.