A month after the United States joins World War II, nine-year-old Lark, her mother, Arlene, and her Aunt Betty migrate to San Diego from Minnesota, leaving Lark’s gambling father behind. Moving into a housing project with uprooted families from...

A look at Alzheimer’s from one young girl’s perspective.

Trudy’s having a hard time at school: math class isn’t going so well, and her best friend—the one she pinky-swore she would always be friends with—has found a new group to hang...