When a ghost shows up at the threshold to Ferris's grandmother Charisse's room, Ferris worries that she's there to take Charisse to the Great Beyond. But Charisse says that the ghost has something else in mind--something unpredictable, a task that's impractical and illuminating. But how can Ferris focus on completing an assignment for a ghost when her little sister is terrorizing the town, her uncle keeps sending her to spy on her aunt, and the house...

Pedro/Peter Martin is a Mexikid, or a kid born in the US to parents from Mexico, a kid who doesn't quite belong either place. So he's not sure what to expect when his dad announces that the whole family (all 11 of them) will be piling into their winnebago to drive 2,000 miles down to Mexico with a mission: bring their mysterious, Mexican-Revolution-era Abuelito home to live with them. But their grandfather has a mission of his own, and he won't leave...