Keisha Carter is a fifth grade girl who is so getting nervous about her upcoming jump rope competition she cant focus when she practices. Then another problem comes up. Keisha and her family run an animal rescue called Carters Urban Rescue. A lady calls them from Mt. Mercy College petitioning them for help with a squirrel problem. The squirrels on campus are damaging the roofs of buildings and obtaining access to the staff offices. While at the college investing the squirrel predicament, Keisha meets Sarge, an Army officer from the wounded veterans hospital on campus.
Trapped on the D.C. Train KC Corcoran is the President of the United States' stepdaughter. She and her best friend, Marshall Li, are going on a train with the Vice President to Lancaster County, PA. At the end of the train is a special car reserved for the Vice President, the kids, and two secret service agents. After leaving the station, the kids decide to explore and while doing so they notice several suspicious characters on the train. When they return from exploring, they find out the Vice President's car has been unhooked!
It's 1936, and America is deep into the Great Depression. Twelve-year-old Rachel is living in a busy city with her Pop and two siblings, Joey and Cassie. Rachel's best friend is Miss Mitzi, who runs the florist shop. However, all this quickly changes when Pop loses his job and moves his children to broken-down farmhouse miles from the city. Then Pop must leave for Canada or not get a job at all. Now Rachel is in charge, but things go badly wrong. Xenia, the goat, eats the garden, Cassie loses every penny they have, and there's nothing to eat but fish and beans.
Nancy and Plum (whose real name is Pamela) are sisters who were orphaned when their parents died in a train wreck six years ago. Without properly investigating it, their guardian, Uncle John, sent them to Mrs. Monday's Boarding Home in Heavenly Valley. Ever since then, he has had very little to do with them. Mrs. Monday seemed kind, but she's really menacing and cruel to all her borders except her horrid niece, Marybelle. Despite their miserable life at Mrs. Monday's, Nancy and Plum are cheerful children.
