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Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.

Harriet Wermer is unhappy about having to spend her summer with her grandmother on Marble island until she discovers a mystery involving her Dad from when he was a boy living on the island.

When Sammy gets to be in charge of the family's haunted house next Halloween, he gets right to work, but his family isn't sure they can take a full year of Sammy's spooky tricks.

"Five siblings worry that their shabby old house isn't 'proper' enough, but come to see that it's perfect just the way it is"--

When twelve-year-old Franny's estranged uncle comes home to help out after Nana's accident, some long-guarded family secrets come to light, forcing Franny to confront the discoveries she makes about her troubled absent mother, and herself.

Ten-year-old Hap's grandmother has experimented on his family and confined them to the basement of a mansion paid for by his father's inventions, but his plan to sell her to aliens goes awry.

A young girl visits her aunt and uncle's farm and helps prepare for her family's annual Easter celebration.

"¡Hola soy Violeta! Tengo un perro travieso que se llama Cepillo.. Estoy preparando, con mis amigos y amigas, una fiesta en el barrio. Aquí viven familias muy distintas. Pero hay una cosa que nos hace iguales: todos nos ayudamos y nos queremos. Somos una gran familia. ¿Nos acompañas? Por cierto, ¿habéis visto dónde se ha escondido Cepillo?."--back cover.

"Presenting Olive Chen! The most magnificent and brilliant artist in the whole wide world! Her parents are also artists--serious artists--who paint prim, proper, perfect shapes. They know Olive has the talent to follow in their footsteps. But Olive likes to smear, splatter, splash, and even lick brush in each hand, Olive cascades through town with her friends in tow, painting what she wants to, what she feels--until she reaches her parents' pristine...