Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother Fudge.

Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.

In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.

Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

In a society that allows families to have only two children, third child Matthias joins the Population Police to infiltrate their system.

Thirteen-year-old Olivene Love gets tangled up in a murder mystery when her itinerant preaching family arrives in the small town of Binder, Arkansas in 1957.

Throughout the twentieth century, Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls made to serve as ambassadors from Japan to the United States, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of those who need her.

In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.

"An exploration of what matters most about loss, unconditional love, security, surrender, powerlessness, peace, strength, and fear, helping readers make sense of their lives and how to travel further down their own spiritual paths"--

Television shows such as Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs have captivated millions with the inside story of aristocratic Edwardian households. But what was life really like for the people who kept such a household running? Maloney takes readers behind the scenes to describe servants' daily life in this now vanished world.