Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own.
Froggy hoped for a brother to play with so he is disappointed with his new baby sister, Pollywogilina, but only until she is old enough to start learning from her big brother.
When ten-year-old Adine's mother has a new baby, eccentric Aunt Irene comes to stay and shares Adine's bedroom--an event which requires a great deal of adjustment.
"Oh, your daddy was a baby once / And your mommy was a baby once ..." Characters in these nineteen diverse poems also include a soccer-playing Cinderella, snowmen who take holidays by the sea, dancing sausages, and three Unwise Men.
A boy and a girl, having created a story for school, must put their talents to coming up with a new story of what happens to the Dude, his fair maiden, and their royal superbaby after they are captured by an evil wizard.
Alex and Ethan have been forced to share a room ever since their baby sister came along and Alex is tired of it, so he begins a letter writing campaign to convince his parents he needs his own space.
