When a walk in the park with Uncle Murray lands Puppy in the pound, Puppy meets some very peculiar new pals.

It's carnival season in New Orleans, and pastry chef Rita Lucero has enough on her plate just filling orders for king cakes. Now she's expected to host a Mardi Gras party for hundreds of her ex-husband's closest friends, and then her aunt Yolanda and uncle Nestor pay a surprise visit. But when local celebrity Big Daddy Boudreaux turns up dead at the Mardi Gras party after a public fight with her uncle, Rita has to find time to prove that the killer...

When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents become "a bit crinkly around the edges," he is taken by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.

While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.

For their summer vacation, twelve-year-old twins Dipper and Mabel Pines travel to the enigmatic town of Gravity Falls, Oregon to spend the summer with their Great Uncle Stan Pines (often shortened to Grunkle Stan), who runs a tourist trap called the "Mystery Shack". Things are not what they seem in this small town, and with the help of a mysterious journal that Dipper finds in the forest, they begin unraveling the local mysteries.