When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor house in the English countryside. Anything will be better, she thinks, than the grim London orphanage where she has lived since her parents' death.
But Florence doesn't expect the ghost of her cousin Sophia, who haunts the cavernous rooms and dimly lit hallways of Crutchfield

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Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision to leap in front of an ongoing subway train, Shay realizes she could end up in the same spiral. She is intrigued by a group of women who seem to have it all together, and they invite her with the promise: "You are not alone." Why not align herself with the glamorous...

Magnus Haraldsson, a Viking on a trading mission to York, chooses Zarabeth to be his wife, but through the treachery of her stepfather, she returns to Norway as the slave of Magnus instead.

With her grandmother's help, Lucille learns to control her jealousy toward her sister Margaret.

Freddy, his jealous sister Babette, and their parents are abducted by slimy aliens and taken to the planet Flurb, where Freddy is made king, much to the dismay of Wizbad.

Kendall and her ghost hunting team are the talk of Radisson, Georgia, but one person isn't so pleased.

Katie loves being the best dancer in her dance class, so when Mattie joins the class and begins to outshine her, Katie is jealous.

Pinky is jealous when his best friend Rex gets the lead in the school play, even though she only tried out to give Pinky moral support.

Jealosy prompts Princess Diamonde to try to ruin the event when Olivia is chosen as Prince Ferdinand's partner to demonstrate how to cross a puddle by stepping on a prince's cape.