As a dedicated runner, a teenage boy has always managed to distance himself from other people until the experience of coaching one of his teammates on the track team gradually helps him see the value of giving and receiving.
Fourteen-year-old Oriel and his friend Griff flee the slavery of Damall's Island and seek a new life on the mainland, where they face raiding wolfers, rival armies, and other dangers.
The relationship between two close friends, Henry and Jonathan, changes when Jonathan's cousin David, a victim of the Holocaust, comes to live with David's family.
Angus and Sadie, sibling pups that are of mostly border collie heritage, are adopted by a young couple and taken to live on a Maine farm, where they begin to learn sheep herding and come to appreciate their differences.
Tired of hearing the arguements of his parents, Brann takes refuge in the basement where he falls asleep and upon waking, meets his father as a boy his own age.
Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
