Terris, Susan

When Amanda's brother, the redhead, gets so much attention that no one answers her questions she decides to stop talking entirely.

Twelve-year-old Linnet Purcell learns a lot about the theater and herself when she is chosen to play the role of Peter Pan in a repertory production.

Finding life disappointingly ordinary after her mother remarries, 13-year-old Rachel tries to impose her view of family life on her step relatives.

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 rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.