Eleven-year old Bailey Fish is starting to enjoy her new life in Central Virginia after her traveling mother sends her to live with her grandmother, Sugar. Suddenly strangers arrive--a father she does not know, and an annoying half-sister, Norma Jean. Norma Jean smiles too much, touches everything, and is not like Bailey's bst friends, who are more like real sisters. Norma Jean even sees the good in Justin, a former bully, who is raising a pet crow. Bailey and her best friends form the No Sisters Sisters Club to keep Norma Jean out. Attitudes change when the sisters learn that they must work together to solve the scary mysteries of Bailey's stolen kitte, Sallie, and a fire at an old house.