William Lamar, known as "Scoob," goes on a road trip thorugh the South with his grandmother in her RV, visiting some of the major sites in the Civil Rights movement and learning about how people like him have been treated.

When Emma develops vitiligo, a skin condition, shortly after her grandmother's death, it changes her life completely, but when she tries to write in the journal which she and her grandmother shared to write fairy tales, comments like those her grandmother used to write start to appear.

Nathaniel Harlow lives with his grandfather in a trailer park in Franklin County, Florida, and he has always been unlucky--but when he is struck by lightning on his eleventh birthday and survives, it seems like his luck starts to change.