"Annabelle Doll, Tiffany Funcraft, and their families journey far from home"--

Flora, Nikki, and Olivia are moving up from elementary school to 7th grade in Central School. As the youngest girl in the whole school, Olivia realizes she has to grow up fast or get left behind.

Flora worries about her first Thanksgiving without her parents, while Ruby worries about getting a part in the school musical, and their new friends, Olivia and Nikki, are adjusting to big changes in their families.

As Flora and Ruby near the first anniversary of their arrival in Camden Falls, Flora has to deal with rivalry between Annika and Olivia, her old and new best friends as the town celebrates it's 350th birthday.

In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own.

Things go awry when Annabelle, a fragile, timid porcelain doll who lies in a Victorian dollhouse, tries to share some of her Christmas traditions with best friend Tiffany, a sturdy, adventurous plastic doll who lives in a modern dollhouse.

At long last, Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father have decided to get married!

Mother's Day is coming up and the Baby-sitters have the same problem they do every year: What do they get their mothers? Kristy, especially, wants to do something nice for her mom. Mrs. Brewer has been acting kind of strange and secretive lately, and Kristy's worried about her...But then Kristy gets another one of her great ideas. Why don't the Baby-sitters treat their moms - and the mothers of the kids they sit for - to a day off without any kids...