family

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family

The nanny nightmare

2010
Now that Polly and the Kreeps are officially family, their parents have left the kids with a nanny with a mean streak. The Kreeps may be creepy, but this nanny has got to go!.

Three's a krowd

2010
The snootiest girl in 5th grade gets a crush on Polly's stepbrother Vincent and keeps coming over to their house.

The mad scientist

2010
Polly's mad-scientist stepbrother, Damon, spends hours in his creepy basement laboratory preparing to enter the school science fair. Polly doesn't know what is worse, that Damon is clearly up to no good with his experiment or that he might actually win first place at the fair.

Kicking and screaming

2010
Polly wants to join the soccer team to have some normal fun, away from her weird new step family. But her witchy stepmother, Veronica Kreep, is determined to be Polly's biggest fan.

Poems about family

2003
A collection of poetry and art by children describing their feelings about family.

The very ordered existence of Merilee Marvelous

2009
In the small town of Jumbo, Texas, thirteen-year-old Merilee, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tries to live a "very ordered existence," but disruptions begin when a boy and his father arrive in town and the youngster makes himself a part of the family.

Amelia writes again

2006
Ten-year-old Amelia draws pictures and writes about her daily life in the journal she receives for her birthday.

Amelia rules!

2006
The second collection of comics about nine-year-old Amelia McBride and her friends, the Gathering of Awesome Super Pals, otherwise known as G.A.S.P., in which Amelia tries to come to terms with her Aunt Tanner's fame and goes to Manhattan to visit her father.

Each little bird that sings

2006
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.

Mitch and Amy

2000
Nine-year-old twins Mitch and Amy quarrel and make up frequently during their year in fourth grade.

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