Tells the story of the Meadows family and the life they lead in the quiet country town of Blue Hill, Virginia

Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler

Unable to sleep on the night of a full moon, a young boy follows the sound of music across the fields and finds an unusual barn dance in progress

After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien

When his great-uncle Daney comes to live with Cole's family after being crippled in a logging accident, the two work together all summer to find a way to make enough money to buy feed so they can keep Daney's old horse

When the sun sets on a quiet country town, the nighttime sounds and scents begin

As the plum tree changes in the passing seasons so do the lives of a three-generation farm family.

A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home

James becomes the unwitting source of wild rumors that a Lizard Man has appeared in his quiet rural community

Benjy's childhood in rural Arkansas is enriched by the special times he spends with his grandfather, but it is not until his grandfather's death that an old family secret is revealed