A Room Made of Windows is the earliest published novel in a series of five about Julia Redfern. Julia and the Hand of God, That Julia Redfern, and Julia's Magic explore her character at a younger age, while The Private Worlds of Julia Redfern portrays her at age fifteen.

Julia is a preschooler in Julia's Magic, and her father is still living. Less mature and constantly in trouble, she suffers the effects of poison oak after she undertakes a forbidden adventure to a canyon, and she also breaks a perfume bottle in her Aunt Alex's boudoir. Her father's strong sense of honesty encourages Julia to admit her unintentional act of destruction. Although Julia is slightly older in That Julia Redfern, she continues to be mischievous, taking her brother's bike and nearly running down her haughty, generously-proportioned Aunt Alex and gorging herself on berries, that make her...