Best buddies Dustin, Albert, and Mark are twelve year old boys looking forward to a summer of fun in 1970. When Dustin mows the lawn of seventy-five year old Jonathan Sperry, a man he has seen at church, a unique friendship develops setting the stage for a summer the three boys will never forget!

"Molly is a partying rock'n'roll princess whose money just ran out. Ray is a fussy nine-year-old whose last nanny just ran out. Only Ray's way-too-busy mom could think that hiring Molly would be the perfect setup for both girls. But as this unlikely pair faces everything from control issues (Ray's, of course) to temper tantrums (Molly's, of course), they discover that sometimes your best friend can come from the place you least expect"--Container....

A young woman goes to work as a nanny for a widower whose two kids have already run off six other nannies. Slowly, the man's young son warms to the new nanny, and the dad himself starts to fall for her as well, but his teenage daughter, still hurting over the death of her mother, has no interest in having this new woman in her or her dad's life.

When working-class Dutch Dooley volunteers to fetch his new girlfriend's son from his Southern prep school, where he's refusing to come home for Thanksgiving, their road trip back to Chicago quickly goes wrong.

Two children are heading home to Australia for Christmas. On their journey they encounter a group of thieves and they accidentally give them the information they need to steal their father's horses. The children then try to save the horses.