When a young girl has a series of mishaps at home one day, her mother tries not to lose her temper--and does not quite succeed.

Lizzie Borden should be one of the most fortunate young women in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her wealthy father could easily afford to provide his daughters with fashionable clothes, travel, and a rich, cultured life. Instead, haunted by the ghost of childhood poverty, he forces Lizzie and her sister, Emma, to live frugally, denying them the simplest modern conveniences. Suitors and socializing are discouraged, as her father views all gentleman callers...

"Bobby Beacon has trouble controlling his hot temper at his superhero school"--

The royal family ventures into the woods to free mean-tempered Queen Carrion from the Bear Witch's spell.