Things look bad when Josie's letter to the newspaper gets her family evicted from their apartment, but the sad story has a happy ending when she ends up with a house and the dog of her dreams.
Teaches readers about the objects and rooms found in homes in the past, describes how those things are different in the early twenty-first century, and asks how they might change in the future.
Dad's decision to solve the Patterson family's overcrowding problem by building an extension on their house brings both excitement and an unexpected problem.