Marcus is lonely on his first day in the new neighborhood, but then he makes a good friend.

What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...

In rural Minnesota in 1938, Hannah, a young orthodox Jewish girl, deals with being the new girl in class.

Mattie, a shy fifth-grader, wants to hide out at her new school by acting as apprentice to her Uncle Potluck, the custodian, but her plan falls apart when she summons the courage to speak about what matters most and finds a true friend.

After a girl says goodbye to friends, she and her family load up the car and head for their new house.

Halloween in a new neighborhood, where he doesn't know anyone, finds Louie making new friends and taking a new trick-or-treat route.

When Jordy, Chloe, and Alex move to a new house, they discover a fantasy world in their attic, filled with monsters, magic, and adventure.

Several students relate their experiences helping Mr. Terupt move the old classroom to the sixth grade annex during the summer vacation.

Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the...

Three city siblings, now living on a farm during the Great Depression, must survive on their own when their father takes a construction job miles away.