It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, where she is living with her strict grandparents, and rejoin her mother, a carefree singer in San Francisco. But Mama's new husband doesn't think a little girl should live with parents who work all night and sleep all day. Lexie's class has been raising money to ship a doll to the children of Japan in a friendship exchange, and when Lexie learns...

A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.

"Max and his stuffed bear, Teddy, live with their granddad. Despite all the fun they have with Granddad -- coloring, building puzzles, playing at the park -- they still miss their mom, who has gone away out of the blue. Will writing a letter to her help them?" --Back cover.

Artie loves giving hugs. But she can't give a hug to her grandma, who lives far away. Instead she shows us how to send hugs using the magic of handwritten letters.

In the hopes of receiving some mail of her own, Paula writes a letter to her grandparents.

Alfie writes a letter to his grandmother and eagerly awaits her reply.

Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.

Pen pals Molly and Olive are both having relationship problems in their third grade classes--Molly is struggling with Jenna, a new girl, who seems to think that name calling is a way to fit in, and Olive has joined a gymnastics team which is putting a strain on her friendship with Emma, whom she has know for years.

All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother forced to fight on behalf of the gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris's best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. But when Iris's letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands--that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her rival at the paper--an unlikely magical connection forms. Expelled into the...

Molly who lives in New York City, and Olive who lives on a farm in Iowa are email friends, and both think that the other would be in serious trouble if they exchanged places--so they make a bet, and while Olive is getting totally lost in Minneapolis, Molly is at a farm in upstate New York desperately trying to milk a goat.