Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.

After the death of her grandmother, a young orphaned girl leaves her house by the cove and begins a journey which leads her to people and experiences that exemplify the wisdom her grandmother had shared with her.

Orphaned and sent to live with her bitter and angry aunt, thirteen-year-old Katherine learns how her family's past has affected her and her relatives and makes decisions about how to move forward with her own life.

The Alden children find an unusual mystery when they spend a vacation on a supposedly deserted South Seas Island.

An orphaned nephew who comes to live with his tireless, party-giving aunt describes episodes in their life during a twenty-year period, recounting events in which his aunt dispenses hospitality, liquor, and advice impartially and with unconventional conviviality.

Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.

In the Melendy family adventures are inevitable. Best of all in the friendship with Mark Herron, which begins with a scrap-drive and comes to a grand climax on Oliver's birthday.

A collection of five novels that follow the adventures of Mandie, a girl growing up in North Carolina around the turn of the twentieth century, who enlists her good friends Joe and Celia in helping her solve mysteries.