Books in Bakers Dozen series

Patty is adopted into the Baker family, which already has twelve children, and she must share a room with Hilary, another eight-year-old who resents her

When snobby, pretty, rich girl Alice Birmingham moves to town, Hilary is determined to impress her, a task that proves difficult with eleven brothers and sisters equally determined to embarrass her

With their mother and father away, the Baker children find themselves in the care of the horrible Mrs. Peabody and they will do anything to get her out of the house