Valerie Tripp

Felicity rescues a beautiful horse from being beaten and starved by her cruel owner.

Summer on Grandfather's planation is heaven for Felicity. Then her friend Ben runs away and she must use all of her courage to save the day.

In 1934, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.

Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tia Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.

Taking a practical joke too far, Felicity and Elizabeth must find a way out of the trouble they created.

Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tia Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.

Ruthie Smithens tries to cheer up her best friend, Kit Kiitredge, with stories that have happy endings, but when she finds out that Kit's family is going to lose their home, she knows she must do something more to help.