When Sophia's helper is absent, her fellow third-graders help out by learning how to push her wheelchair.

Isaiah explains to Jack why cleaning up after himself shows respect for himself and for the overworked janitor.

After their parents die, Flora and her sister Ruby move to Camden Falls to live with their grandmother, Min.

After living in Camden Falls nearly a year, Flora anticipates a visit from her old best friend, Annika, which leaves her new best friend, Olivia, anxious.

Flora and Nikki are excited about starting seventh grade in a new school building, but Olivia worries about being the youngest girl in the whole school.

Flora and Ruby's Aunt Allie is finally getting her chance to adopt a baby, and they travel with her to New York City to do some sightseeing while she waits for the baby's birth.

"It's been two years since Flora and Ruby moved to Camden Falls. They've always gotten along as friends amd as sisters, but now they're starting to fight all the time. Nobody--not their friends, not their grandmother--knows why, or what to do. In the end, it might take a whole town to get them back together and make them realize how much they've grown up since their parents died and their lives changed so much. Staying together isn't easy--but with...