The daughter of a famous actress, fifteen-year-old Grace has never known the identity of her father, but she hopes to find some answers while spending the summer at her mother's childhood home on Martha's Vineyard.
Fifteen-year-old Linda, who resembles her father and has his gift for music, pursues the truth about her long-absent parent now that he has died, and her own interest in the guitar.
When her father is suddenly arrested and put into prison, thirteen-year-old Elinor finds that she has to face many unpleasant truths about him and their way of life.
Shortly after their police officer father is killed in the line of duty, thirteen-year-old Grace's older sister decides to adopt a dog to train as a service dog for a handicapped child so that she can write about it for her college applications, but true to form, it is the grief-stricken Grace who ends up taking responsibility for the dog.
During his summer in Maine, twelve-year-old Homer, together with his new friend Roger, is determined to find the truth about himself, his long-dead father, and a mysterious costumed man.
When he visits his father in the Florida Keys, sixteen-year-old Brian is befriended by a local captain who involves him in the search for a centuries-old sunken ship and gives him insight into several difficult personal relationships.
As she watches her friends with their fathers, fourteen-year-old Jessie decides the family she shares with her mother and her great-great-aunt is not enough, so she sets out to learn more about the father who left when she was just a baby.
Tim Russert shares letters he received from readers after the publication of his book about his father, "Big Russ & Me, " in which they tell stories of their fond memories of their own dads.
