Martin, Ann M.

When two-year-old Emily gets sick, everyone has to take care of her including Karen, who discovers that being a big sister can be fun after all.

Nikki relies on support from her friends Flora, Ruby, and Olivia when her father comes back after leaving the family and she does not know what to expect.

Fifth-grader Pearl Littlefield, having had some negative experiences over the past summer, struggles to complete her essay assignment about her break.

Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.

When her grandmother has a stroke, Claudia has to spend time with her and her mean sister isn't helping matters.

A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.

Jessi is looking forward to the coming Christmas and Kwanzaa celebrations with her extended family, but when her baby brother is hospitalized after an automobile accident, everything seems to fall apart.

Stacey tries to match her mother with a man who has just moved his family into town.

When Karen's grandfather dies, she and her grandmother miss him, but are comforted by sharing their many happy memories of him.

Karen is going on a field trip to a museum in New York City. She is excited about seeing dinosaurs and her pen pal Maxie. When David Michael starts a fight, Karen worries that the trip will be ruined.