After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
Ingenious eight-year-old Owen wants to make money for the things he absolutely needs such as plastic vomit, but he tries to come up with some alternatives to earning an allowance, which sounds like too much work.
After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistis family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where sher was born to find a special memento of her past.
Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
Meet Andy Russell an endearing fourth grader who stirs up good-natured mischief without even trying. It's a good thing for Andy that he's charming and full of bright ideas.
When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home she meets five children and their parents who welcome her into their family.