A compilation of poems by Americans writing about American art in the twentieth century, including such writers as Nancy Willard, Jane Yolen, and X. J. Kennedy.
Not wanting to move from her Manhattan home, Holly persuades her mother to establish herself in their new Des Moines home while Holly spends the summer with the eccentric Applebaum family
Fifteen-year-old Roxie cannot get along with her mother, whose slow recovery from a stroke has made home life difficult, and envies her best friend until a crisis of conscience threatens to change that relationship forever.