Franklin and his family are off on a Christmas visit with Grandma and Grandpa at Faraway Farm! The farm is hit by a sudden ice storm - knocking out the power and taking out the telephone lines. Franklin's parents visit the elderly next-door neighbors. While they are away, disaster strikes when Grandpa takes a terrible tumble and Grandma worries about getting him to a doctor. Now, Franklin and Harriet, his stowaway baby sister, begin a magical adventure...

Explores the history of the family road trip, how its evolution mirrored the evolution of the United States, and why road trips have largely disappeared.

Private Investigator Regan Reilly and her husband Jack travel to Cape Cod to celebrate their first wedding anniversary and enjoy a romantic stay at Jack's parents' beachfront home. However, when the home's caretaker discovers the body of neighbor and notorious shut-in Adele Hopkins on the beach after a violent storm, Jack and Regan must put their romantic plans on hold to discover the deceased's next of kin.

Jane Hayes's adoration of all things Jane Austen is complicating her love life. Determined to be the heroine of her own story, Jane spends her life savings on a trip to Austenland, an eccentric Austen-inspired resort, where she meets two very different gentlemen, but has a difficult time determining where fantasy ends and real life, and maybe even love, begins.

Chloe Blin is determined to find out how to be popular, confident, and in love. Unfortunately she has to deal with mean girl cliques, fashion faux-pas, and trying to impress the cutest boy in school with her sweet moves ... only to fall completely flat. Whether it's rocking a party that goes sideways or making the best of a less than ideal vacation, Chloe may not always get it right at first but she doesn't give up!

London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...

In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.