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Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.

The Farrells, an ordinary family living in an upper-class New England town, struggle to cope when eleven-year-old Amanda, a promising gymnast, is diagnosed with AIDS, the result of a blood transfusion five years earlier.

Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R.

Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R.

Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose cconnection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present--and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.