When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.

Brandon and Kara agree to work off the cost of a broken window by cleaning crazy Dr. Wentmeyer's laboratory, where they discover a time machine and become its first passengers. Something goes horribly wrong, though, and the two friends find themselves millions of years in the past, trapped in a velociraptor nightmare!

Having just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by what the spooky woman really wants.

In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.