The Jellyfish Season

When her father loses his job at the steel mill, twelve-year-old Kathleen, her mother and her three younger sisters leave Baltimore to live with relatives in a Chesapeake Bay town while Dad looks for work. Kathleen is left minding the little girls, feuding with her spoiled cousin Fay and nursing a crush on Fay's secret sailor boyfriend. As tempers fray in the crowded house and her mother grows more distant, Kathleen must find a way to say what she feels before the summer pulls her family apart.