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Second-grader Freddy hates being the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school play.

Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.

"And the saga of Ramona continues. Now in the second grade, our delightfully pesky friend directs her attention to her father's smoking and unexpected unemployment, her full-time working mother, and a sister who has reached a "difficult" age.

Young Tim Meeker learns some bitter life lessons when his sixteen-year-old brother goes off to fight with the Patriots in the Revolutionary War, while he remains home with his reluctantly Loyalist family in the Tory town of Redding Ridge, Connecticut.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.

Thirteen-year-old Karen Sossi encounters bad luck when she ignores her schoolwork for cooking and baby-sitting.

Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous.

Thirteen-year-old Phoebe recalls the death of her younger brother Mick in a bicycle accident, which might not have been fatal had he been wearing his helmet, and how she and her family reacted to the tragedy.

Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, visiting a New England fishing village, decide to investigate the truth behind the legend of a ghost ship that townspeople claim sank off the coast and reappears on stormy nights.

While helping run Jerry Taylor's general store, the Alden children investigate his mysterious employee Nancy.

The Alden children investigate various mix-ups at a zoo run by their grandfather's friend in an effort to save it not only from pranksters but also from the town council.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.

Follows a year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives and neighbors.