Barbara Corcoran

Thirteen-year-old Annie, living with her family in a small Massachusetts town where her father is an Episcopal minister, is delighted when her prayers for an Irish wolfhound are answered. . .

After running away from a Massachusetts reform school, fifteenyear-old Tom, with the help of his sister, hides from the police until he can clear himself of a drunk driving charge.

In need of time to decide what to do with her life after a year of college, Marcie finds help in her guitar and bluegrass music in breaking away from her overprotective divorced mother and in making decisions.

Two girls stumble upon things at their recently reopened camp that make them believe someone has been living there during the years the camp was deserted.

The serious, responsible girl of the family has to contend with a number of problems, both funny and not so funny, when her mother has to have an operation.