family

Mortimer Brewster is appalled when he learns that his charming little old aunts have been poisoning their elderly gentlemen boarders in what they believe is an act of kindness, and burying them in the cellar with the help of another nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt.

Three children grow up with their hard-working mother's stories about her rich uncle back in Mexico, but when they save money for a visit, they learn a surprising truth.

Nicky loves living in Philadelphia with his friends and baseball team, but one day dad surprises the family with a move to "the country".

The cousins discover a stranger sneaking into the local dump. Broken things start disappearing all over town, and then, reappearing, repaired and refurbished.

Heavenly Lifebody, a Mary Poppins for the new millennium, may do more harm than good at Kit's school dance.

As the Depression begins to take hold in the autumn of 1929, thirteen-year-old Jane records in her diary the day-to-day changes in her family's circumstances when her father loses his job.