From an award-winning author comes a spellbinding story of two young women at the turning points in their lives, when each must choose to accept the life she has, or leap into the one she might yet live. A moment. That's all it takes. A bewildering moment when the world spins upside-down, and then life can never be the same again. Arrow was just a girl when she saw something no child should have to see, and she's still haunted by this childhood tragedy....

When young Amy brings a sloth home for a visit, her family, the speediest in town, learns how to slow down to talk, play, and laze.

When war forces people to flee their homes, young refugee Peter carries a cherished family possession throughout a difficult period of survival before reflecting on its importance years later.

Biff and Buff are two very small dogs who are happy to travel in Mr. Pockets's pockets, until Biff falls through a hole one day.