When strange things start happening and eight-year-old Mabel, who is very sensible, cannot figure them out, she discovers a family secret that affects her younger sister Violet.
Eight-year-old Mabel is excited when her parents buy her a new piano and begins practicing for a concert at their house. But soon Mabel becomes worried that her jealous sister Violet has plans to jeopardize her big performance.
After arriving at her cousins' beach home, organized and quiet Mabel feels she needs to hide the fact that her sister, Violet, is messy and obnoxious. Mabel later realizes her cousins see right through Violet and worries about what her cousins think of her.
Abby Hayes is starting fifth grade. Her supersibs, the perfect older twins and her genius little brother, have already proved their Hayes worthiness. This is going to be Abby's year and she's going to record every moment of it!.
Abby finally convinces her parents to purchase a cell phone for everyone in the family, but she is still jealous of her friend's top-of-the line model.
Fourteen stories by American authors from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, including Duane Big Eagle, Nicholasa Mohr, Lensey Namioka, and Robert Cormier.
