Third-grader Clementine's school field trip to Plimoth Plantation leads to all kind of discoveries, from fourth grade eating rules to the source of the stink on the bus.

Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.

While Boston is home to a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreads through the firehorse population in 1872, fifteen-year-old Rachel Selby, a spirited horse lover, decides to pursue a career as a veterinarian, despite opposition from her rigid father, mother, and the norms of society.

Living with her family near Boston, five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, feels the effects of the War of 1812.