Tripp, Valerie

Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly's father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special.

During World War II, nine-year-old Molly goes to school and with her friends tries to aid in the war effort.

While her father is away fighting in World WarII, Molly finds her life full of changes as she eats terrible vegetables from the victory garden and plans revenge on her brother for ruining her Halloween.

While spending the summer at Grandmary's summer home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.

When Samantha's tenth birthday party is spoiled by the boy next door, Aunt Cornelia and her young twin sisters try to ease Samantha's disappointment by inviting her and Grandmary to visit them in New York City.

In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper, and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.

Shortly before the Revolutionary War, nine-year-old Felicity, who lives in Willaimsburg, is torn between supporting the tariff-induced tea boycott and saving her friendship with Elizabeth, a young loyalist from England.

In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse who is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner.

When Tia Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.

In 1825 when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American who leaves town without paying her.