While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter.

The continuing saga of the Pepper family as the children reach young adulthood.

Told in rhyming text, a young boy learns to swim in a pool with the example and encouragement of his family.

When a strange storm confines a fractured family in tight quarters, leaving them all in the dark, they must find a way to reconnect and face whatever the future brings-together.

Clementine faces changes at the end of her third grade year and anticipates the birth of her family's new baby.

"It's Nanette's first trip to get the baguette! Is she set? You bet!"--

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.

After a close call with the cat who stalks the hallways, a family of wild mice, including adventurous, young Beaumont and elderly Uncle Brown, emigrates to a more mouse-friendly house down the block.

"Violet longs for the time when her family was connected: before life, distractions, and technology pulled them all away from each other. They used to gather at the table, with food and love, to make memories, share their lives, and revel in time spent together. But now her family has been drifting apart, and with nobody to gather around it, the table grows smaller and smaller. Can Violet remind her family of the warmth of time spent together, and...

Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.