The House on the Gulf

Brit's older brother Bran gets a summer house sitting job for his family. Which couldn't be more convienient for his Pre-Med school mother and his younger sister Britt. Once moved in though, Bran begins to act strangely, asking many odd requests for living conditions. Britt makes friends with an elderly neighbor and then begins to run errands for many of the other elderly neighbors around her. As Bran continues to behave oddly, Britt is determined to discover his secret. When she does, the reader discovers that the family certainly shouldn't be housesitting at all and are living in what Bran thinks is the house of the grandparents that disowned their mother years ago. When word arrives that their 'grandfather' has died, Bran's plans to 'get back' at the grandparents that 'abandoned' them. The pair discover that they have the wrong family when the widow arrives to sell the house. The book ends quickly with the neighbor coming to the rescue and offering to allow the family to move in with her and her husband. Britt, in the end of the book, sends a postcard to her 'real' grandparents, hoping to renew family ties.