Eleven-year-old budding artist Eleanor McDougal shares the sketch diary she keeps throughout her camping trip to northern Michigan. She’s making the trip with relatives she does not know very well. Her descriptions of Aunt Ug, Uncle Ewing, and her three cousins are scathing, while she portrays herself as an accomplished artist, naturalist, and born leader.

Readers see other facets of Ellie’s character as she teases and berates her cousins and ignores her three-year-old brother. When her behavior gets out of control, the adults step in with discipline that forces Ellie to get to know her cousins. Initially the kids forge friendships by playing pranks on the others, but ultimately they enjoy many adventures.

Ellie shares instructions and diagrams for games such as “Spoons,” “Fing Fang Fooey,” and “Sardines” that are easy to follow and will inspire readers to gather friends and play.

Ellie’s family is moving to a new town, and Ellie is sure she won’t fit in at school. The other kids play “new kid bingo” behind her back, and even the teachers can’t seem to remember her name. But when her new classmates start complaining about long lunch lines (and bad food), Ellie jumps at the chance to lead a protest. And tackling the school cafeteria just might be the perfect way to make new friends!

It’s winter and the Pinkers are out of shape – so Dad decides to use the whole family to test out his ideas for a new fit-in-four weeks diet book.
But after a few weeks of early
morning runs and cardboard flavoured ready meals, (meaning Peony needs chips and double helpings of pudding at lunch every day to make up)
Peony’s become so unfit can barely walk up the
hill home. And she’s supposed to be climbing Mount Snowdon in just a few weeks!
Can Gran
get the family back on track with some wise words and common sense?
Hilarious family comedy with a self-help twist.

When a young man finds a golden goose in the forest he has to keep it away from the greedy townsfolk.

The Trueheart house is busy and bustling-because today is a special day. Tom’s older brothers are getting married and preparing to live happily ever after.

But then an unexpected wedding guest arrives. Someone who has decided that there will be no more Happy Endings. Tom’s brothers and their brides are whisked off to the Land of Dark Stories, as prisoners of their old enemy Brother Ormestone. And Tom himself is put under a terrible enchantment…

It is up to Tom to try to save the others, and to bring back Happy Endings. But how can he defeat the storybook monsters now that he is only the size of a thumb?