Tess Christensen

Martha and Jed Richards live in Oregon in 1862. They and their two daughters moved there to make a new life, but the daughters died of cholera along the way. This has left Martha an emotional wreck, and she is unable to move on with her life. That is until an orphan named Danny comes to live with them. Jed immediately accepts Danny as his son, but Martha is still too upset to be able to love him. As time passes, however, she finds herself more and more able to accept him as part of the family.

Big sister Krista angrily wishes her little brother Tyler would just turn into a bug and buzz off. She gets her wish, courtesy of Mrs. Pickle Nickle, an alien babysitter. Can Krista find her missing bug of a brother and get him back to normal?