During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.

A boy in Illinois remembers the home-front years of World War II, especially his two heroes, his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war.

A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.

In 1913 in the Midwest a quartet of characters share adventures from exploding steamboats to "exorcising" a ghost.

Blossom Culp has the gift of second sight, which she discovers gradually, leads her into some unusual adventures.

Being the new girl at school is rough. But when the popular girls choose Kerry as the newest member of their ultra-exclusive clique, she thinks her troubles are finally finished. When her three new friends are killed in a horrifying car crash, her life seems over as well. But then the texts begin. . . .
Richard Peck returns to his contemporary teen- and ghost-story roots in this suspenseful page-turner with a subtle commentary on peer pressure...

It's Halloween, 1914. Teenage psychic Blossom Culp sneaks into the house where the rest of her class is having a party-and that's when everything goes haywire. Suddenly Blossom is hurled into a time warp. Her psychic powers have found a way to send her into the future-our time. But will they be able to send her back?

Saga of a remarkable group of spirited women who rise to the challenges and chances of their times in the Virginia City of the Silver Bonanza amid a devastating fire, in the Marlborough Set of London in the nineties, in the San Francisco of earthquake days, and in the Europe of two world wars.