Missing her mother who died last year, fourteen-year-old Sofia finds an anonymous outlet for her personal questions and deep, dark secrets in the Dear Kate advice columnist, until, much to her horror, Sofia's father starts dating Kate.
In 1996, a fourteen-year-old girl in a coma is forced back in time by a girl who died in 1906, and who needs help in righting a series of terrible wrongs.
As war breaks out between Mexico and the United States over the territory of Texas in 1846, twelve-year-old Bonita, a patriotic Mexican, is at odds with her best friend Carmen, a Spanish American.