When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
Phoney Bone rigs the Spring Fair's annual Great Cow Race by putting Smiley in a bovine disguise and convincing everyone to bet their livestock on the mystery cow, and Fone Bone finds himself in a one-cousin battle with the rat creatures.
Lucius, Smiley and Phoney are attacked by rat creatures in the forest, barely making it to Lucius' tavern, while, at the farm, Fone Bone and Thorn are having strange dreams and Gran'ma Ben suddenly begins revealing secrets and new dangers.
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
When his cousin Opal loses a tooth during a visit, Puddle dresses as the Tooth Fairy so that Opal's hope of receiving a shiny quarter will not be disappointed.
In the early 1900s, two cousins leave their Russian shtetl with the rest of their family to come to America, hopeful that they will all pass the dreaded inspection at Ellis Island.
Abby is less than thrilled when she is paired with her cousin Cleo for an Arts Center bookmaking project while staying at Grandma Emma's over spring break.
When Cousin Henry gets all the attention in the grown-up musical in which they have roles, Angelina becomes jealous, but she demonstrates her fondness for him when a crisis occurs on opening night.
