Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.

When Pete the Kitty has a stomach ache, his dad decides that it is time to go to the doctor, but Pete is a little bit nervous about his first visit to the doctor.

"While Dad, Doc, and Donny are cleaning the attic, Donny finds Dad's favorite old toys, Saltwater Serge and Wellington Whale. The toys are always in motion to save the ocean, but it looks like they've been stranded in the attic a little too long. It's up to Doc to get the old toys working as good as new again"--Page [4] of cover.