The year is 1969. Nine-year old Joe-Joe is a little too curious about his mother Mae's brand new vacuum cleaner. Eventually, after Joe-Joe vacuums all the dirt from a potted houseplant, the machine explodes Dirt particles are everywhere in the room and Mae will be home in an hour. Despite his efforts to clean up what he has done, Mae cannot be fooled-she is furious And the Hoover vacuum cleaner is broken beyond repair...

A new neighbor moves into a posh Long Island neighborhood where everything is peaceful. Peaceful, that is, until the Guldstein family arrives and the comedy begins. This book will truly have you rolling on the floor in stitches. It's Christmas Eve Day and the moving truck is on it's way. Silently, behind the furnishings and packed cardboard boxes lie some menacing creatures. The Wilkersens, the new next door neighbors, host their annual Christmas Day party which proceeds as usual until some unexpected visitors appear out of nowhere and Oy Vey Their celebration becomes a chaotic mess....

It's the day before her 16th birthday, and Clover has gone missing The sirens blare as her parents, Marcel and Hagatha Baggard, wait for the police to arrive. Shocked, Hagatha tries but cannot comprehend what has happened to her cherished daughter--and there begins her descent into despair. Once a popular teacher, she becomes a bag lady, an object of ridicule for the children at the school where she wanders about collecting trash and cautioning safety, a lost soul known as "Haggy Baggy." Hagatha's journey back to her old self is long and tortuous. Her gripping story takes you to a place...