Sonya Hartnett

In France during World War I, four French children learn about honesty, loyalty, and courage from an English army deserter who tells them a series of stories related to his small, silver donkey charm.

Satchel O'Rye, devoted son of an impoverished couple in a dying rural town, must weigh in balance the life of his most cherished dog and the freedom of a mysterious rare animal.

Rex and Tabby Jenson and their sons, Colt and Bastian, arrive in Freya Kiley's Australian neighborhood with little fanfare, but their presence sends fissures throughout their modest community.

Maddy, an elderly woman, returns home to find a strange boy waiting for her, and she tells him the story about when she fell in love with a man named Feather, who put aside his old existence to live with her in a cottage and conceived a child with her--who was never to be born--and left, which caused Maddy to follow him across the sea.