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The night swimmers

1990
With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers.

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Z.A.P. and Zoe
1984
In upstate New York in 1939, eleven-year-old, Greek-American Zach contends with the varied problems and pleasures of growing up and with his little sister Zoe.

Titch

1971
Nothing Titch owned amounted to much except the smallest thing of all--a seed.

Old enough for magic

1989
Peter's sister Arlene doesn't think he is old enough to own a magic set, but when Arlene accidentally turns herself into a frog it's Peter who figures out how to change her back.

Back yard Angel

1983
Although ten-year-old Angel loves her little brother Rags dearly, the constant responsibility of taking care of him weighs heavily on her young shoulders.

All the lovely bad ones

a ghost story
2008
Travis and his sister Corey decide to boost business at their grandmother's Vermont inn by staging a few "hauntings" that soon draw tourists from across the country, but when their antics awaken a dark force, they must find a way to put to rest the ghosts they have disturbed.

If it weren't for you

1966
A little boy describes all the things he could have and do if he didn't have a brother.

The secret of the painted house

2007
When her family moves from Chicago to the country, nine-year-old Emily is drawn to a mysterious playhouse she finds in the woods and soon meets its sad, lonely inhabitants.

The Wishing Club

a story about fractions
2007
When four siblings wish on a star, each gets only a fraction of what he or she wanted, but when they combine their wishes, they just might get a whole new pet.

Monster bug

2004
After cousins Kyle and Jenna discover how their older siblings managed to scare them by using shadows, they use the same trick to get revenge.

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