Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.

Eleven-year-old Janie advertises to do odd jobs in her neighborhood and receives so much business she hires her friends and becomes manager of the Kid Power Agency.

Laurie's letters to her divorced father chronicle her year in the sixth grade and her efforts to enter her school's program for the gifted and talented.

The remaining members of the Chapman family try to cope with the disappearance of fourteen-year-old Michael.

Relates ten-year-old Beth's exciting trip to pre-Civil War New York City with Marmee and Father.

As each of the four March sisters turns ten, she is invited by Aunt March at Christmastime to discuss who will receive an heirloom, an old cameo brooch, and thus each girl contemplates her role in the family.