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Thirteen-year-old Claudia describes her family and shares some secrets on how to get along with family members and have fun together.

Eleven-year-old Jenna Bloom is aggravated having her twin brother and older sister at the same camp with her over the summer and decides to exercise her own independence through a series of practical jokes that grow less and less funny to her friends.

When her mother has a new baby, Elizabeti is given charge of her younger brother and finds it more difficult to take care of him than it was to care for her rock doll.

Toronto sixteen-year-old Scotch may have to acknowledge her own limitations and come to terms with her mixed Jamaican, white, and black heritage if she is to stop the Chaos that has claimed her brother and made much of the world crazy.

A graphic novel adaptation of the Boxcar Children mystery in which the four Aldens take shelter in an old abandoned house during a rainstorm while on a bicycle trip to their Aunt Jane's house and a lost dog finds them.

Fifteen-year-old Mia feels like a ghost watching her own life when her parents' arguments escalate into a separation, triggering counseling sessions, strange behavior in her brother and sister, and a new connection with her brother's best friend.

When life gets difficult for Ana Rosa, a twelve-year-old would-be writer living in a small village in the Dominican Republic, she can depend on her older brother to make her feel better--until the life-changing events on her thirteenth birthday.

Jordan and Nicole, sick of the hot weather in Pasadena, are happy to learn their family is going to take a trip to Alaska, but their excitement over finally getting to see snow turns to terror when they stumble into the path of the Abominable Snowman.

Nellie and her little brother Gus discuss all kinds of families during a day at the zoo and dinner at home with their relatives afterwards.

The Melendy family moves to a house in the country where a secret room, a cupola, a stable, and a brook provide Mona, Rush, Randy, and Oliver with adventures far different from the city life to which they are accustomed.

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Emma is thrilled school is out, and she won't need to babysit her brother, Jake, every afternoon, until she learns they'll be going to the same day camp, and she will have to babysit him on the bus each day.

When superstitious eighteen-year-old John "Beatle" Lennon, who is dating the best friend of his twin sister, meets Destiny McCartney, their instant rapport and shared quirkiness make it seem that their fate is written in the stars.

Amy is depressed after her mother announces that she is pregnant and they need to cancel their trip to Milan, and after Amy and her friends take Charlotte's bratty little brother, Patrick, to the circus she is even more convinced that a younger sibling is the last thing she wants.

When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.