Jack and Annie go back in time to meet Abraham Lincoln himself! They need to get a special feather from him to save Penny the penguin. But President Lincoln is much too busy running a country at war. So the kids go even further back to look for Abe as a boy. Instead, they meet a ragged orphan named Sam who also needs their help. Can Jack and Annie do the right thing - and still save a president, a troubled nation, and Penny as well?

While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.