"Ashley can't get comfortable in her family's new apartment.  Sometimes she hears a child crying, though no one is near, and everything she does--especially going into the garden or playing with a mysterious white cat--upsets the irritable landlady.  The discovery of an old doll buried in the forbidden garden starts Ashley on a quest to find out who it belonged to, and why it was buried.  The landlady claims the doll is hers.  But an eerie encounter...

"Molly and her brother, Michael, agree that their new stepsister is a spoiled brat.  Mom wants Molly to watch out for Heather, since she's only seven.  But Heather only wants to make trouble for Molly and Michael.  She lies and tattles and misbehaves, and somehow they  get the blame.  They know she's trying to drive a wedge between her father and their mother, who recently married, so she can have her father all to herself--and it seems to be...