Leslie has trouble relating to her mother and turns instead to her new journalism advisor at school, until a moment of crisis puts a different perspective on things.
When his widowed mother meets a man she wants to marry, thirteen-year-old Bernie decides he will go to live with his grandfather in Florida rather than live in the house with his new stepfather.
Banished by his family for making friends with a human, a little vampire comes to Tony, his only friend, takes up residence in the basement of his apartment building, and makes chaos of his life.
Six parentless kids ranging in age from 5 to 18 run away from the orphanage and, as a family, successfully establish a household miles away until local do-gooders begin investigating.
