eccentrics and eccentricities

Having published his tell-all memoir, put-upon butler Tristan Benway returns to work for the eccentric Bellweather family at Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, only to break his leg when the triplets destroy the lighthouse stairs.

A saga of the Bellefleur family--a prolific group whose members include millionaires, a murderer, seekers, and various eccentrics--as seen through the eyes of the clan's youngest member, Germaine,.

Using his renowned lack of common sense, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips gets himself and his friends Kate and Wyatt embroiled in more dragon adventures, as they discover and hatch the last remaining dragon stone.

Beefeater Balthazar Jones finds his already chaotic life living in the Tower of London with a group of eccentric individuals getting even more complicated when he is assigned to set up housing within the attraction's walls for exotic animals gifted to the queen, his wife leaves him, and his 120-year-old tortoise runs away.

A young boy who lives with his grandmother is terribly embarrassed by her behavior at first, but comes to realize that she is not just having fun and has a reason for each strange action.

Someone is tripping students at Benjamin Dizzy Elementary School and taking their candy and homework, but the resulting nervousness does not quell people's excitement over the upcoming Dizzy Day Parade, when the rule is "anything goes.".

Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish lake monster named Lucky.

Great changes are in store for the highly creative and somewhat eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who almost immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.

While preparing for her participation in a wedding, adjusting to being a student at a school for the arts, and dealing with surprise visitors at home, twelve-year-old Olivia ventures into the New York City subway tunnels in search of a man who might help her friend Frannie.

A collection of limericks about Uncle Switch, an eccentric who does everything topsy-turvy.