Ellie's life in nineteenth-century Upper Canada is disrupted when her grandmother arrives, determined to take Ellie back to England for a proper upbringing, and although the two don't get along, they find a common bond in a fox cub.

Poor English hampers ten-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant Joseph Wisotsky after he arrives in 1910 New York City, where he and his seventeen-year-old sister Anna must await the arrival of their parents.

Josie is sure that she has found tiny dinosaur footprints in stone, hundreds of millions of years old, but will she be able to secure her find?