A family flees its native country in a small boat and lands in America on a particularly appropriate holiday. Mom and Dad and the boy and girl are coming to America in a big boat.

Twelve-year-old Austin Ives writes letters to his younger brother describing his three-thousand-mile journey from their home in Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1851.

Ten-year-old Megan Brady tells of her family's lifestyle, spending summers traveling in a caravan through the Irish countryside getting work where they can, and winters in Dublin so the children can attend school.

Answers many questions about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year-old Allie goes with her grandfather to a performance of "The Nutcracker" on Christmas Eve, hears about the special day he had with her mother going to her first "Nutcracker," and shares his loving memory of her.

During the course of three hundred years, many people have passed by or lived on the spot now occupied by a house numbered 107 Maple Street.