Abby's vacation in Paris is almost ruined by her squabbling siblings, Eva and Isabel, until they get separated and Abby is free to explore the city on her own.
Violet helps Mabel get her things sorted and ready for the garage sale and then conjures up a pool in the back yard which she refuses to make disappear.
This year the Fall Festival at the high school wiil be the best ever. Abby wants to go wisth her friends-- not her parents and little brother. But first she has to prove how mature she has become.
When strange things start happening and eigh-year-old Mabel, who is very sesible, cannot figure them out, she discovers a family secret that affects her younger sister Violet.
Abby Hayes graduates from fifth grade and plans to spend a relaxing summer before starting middle school, but it is ruined when her mother's friend and her daughter show up.
