Three brothers have everything they want except a mother and, after the latest housekeeper leaves in despair, they decide to help father find a new wife.
Fourteen-year-old Byron and the disturbed boy he is baby sitting form a close friendship that helps them through several crises in the following four years.
Thrown out of her 12th foster home with only a copy of "Through the Looking-Glass," a 12-year-old black girl interchanges the people and situations of her life with those in the book.
