Sisters in time

In 1931, "times are tough for Anna Harrington. But times are even tougher for some of her friends, who've been devastated by the Great Depression. Dot's family is hungry and may lose its home, while Chet, riding the rails as a hobo in search of work, is in trouble with the law. Twelve-year-old Anna and her cousin, Fred, watch in sorrow as the others suffer, wondering what they can do to show God's love to their friends. Soon they come up with some...

In 1840s Ohio, twelve-year-old Meg Buehler struggles to follow her dream of becoming an artist despite the discouragement of her brother Fred, whose concern is the issue of slavery.

Carrie tries to protect her Jewish friend from intolerant people.

In colonial Boston, a twelve-year-old girl finds her heart stirred by the great revival known as the Great Awakening and determines she must dare to help a mistreated slave girl.

Ten-year-old Cincinnatian Grace Morgan is fed up with the unkempt boy who harrasses her quiet cousin, but she sees things differently when their town is hit by a serious drought and she and her family get a taste of poverty.

As World War II draws to a close, Laura comes to admire her Japanese American neighbor whose father is fighting for the U.S. Army in Europe, but will she be strong enough to defend her new friend from the persecution of schoolmates?

Nellie Starr, a young Cherokee girl, and her family are forced by U.S. soldiers to leave their home in Tennessee and travel the "Trail of Tears" to a new home in the western Indian territory.