A collection of poems in whihc Jane Yolen reflects on her husband's radiation treatment and the impact it had on their life and family.

Tilden and her younger sister Elizabeth are uprooted again when their ever optimistic, romantic mother Frances moves them north to live with Nick, the owner of a limousine service, but everything seems to be going just fine until Frances discovers a lump in her breast.

In her diary, ten-year-old Melanie describes how she and her family, accompanied by her best friend Cecily, travel to the Netherlands, where they have a good time despite Cecily's concern for her mother's health and Melanie's struggles with her little brother and her own attitude.

Twelve-year-olds Cady and Nana explore the strengths of their special friendship as they cope with Nana's cancer.

Jamie Dunkirk agrees to become a surrogate for her sister, Kendra and husband Isaac, in hopes that the gesture will heal past hurts between the two women; but soon a medical crisis threatens her health as well as her new relationship with Cash Rosslyn.

When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.