In 1822, on Nantucket Island, runaway slave Arthur Cooper and his family are protected from slave catchers by the Folgers, a family of Quakers, in a fictional account of an historical event as told through the eyes of Phebe Folger.
Reluctantly getting ready to move to a new house with his mother, eleven-year-old Charlie gets caught in a funny chain of events, culminating in the reuniting of his long-divorced parents
Angry at her mother for leaving her in Vermont with her aunt and uncle while her mother goes off to school, Cassie writes letters to her errant parent, pouring out her frustrations and discoveries
As eleven-year-old Charlie prepares to move out of the only home he has ever known, he learns that making some of his own moves can help the situation. Reprint.