When their pregnant mother gets sick on the eve of their move from California to Pennsylvania, the four younger Smith children find themselves in the custody of the city leaving their twelve-year-old sister Boo, with the help of eccentric old Auntie Moss, to somehow trace their whereabouts and get the family back together again.
year: 1989
call number/section: 1000
subjects: moving, household, fiction, brothers and sisters, old age, family life, moving