Eleven-year-old Molly has gotten off on the wrong foot in her new town by insulting the mayor's daughter, but with the help of her baseball prowess and two friends she hopes to redeem herself during the Fourth of July parade.

While her artist father is away trying to arrange a much-needed exhibition, thirteen-year-old Lily stays alone at the beach cottage in which they have spent the summer and discovers her own inner strengths and resources and some evidence of an artistic talent that she has always been afraid to test.While her artist father is away trying to arrange a much-needed exhibition, thirteen-year-old Lily stays alone at the beach cottage in which they have spent the summer and discovers her own inner strengths and resources

After the Green Mist Disease, a plague unleashed by a chemical accident devastates the earth, a sinister organization assumes responsibility for the survivors, and it is up to Pokey and a handful of others to save the survivors from the group's evil schemes

William worries about how his stepfather, Bruno, is going to use a machine he created that can change what is written in books, so William and his mother run away with the device

Follows the up-and-down fortunes of an iron pot belly stove from its manufacture on 1888 through a century of changing fashions in heating.