Hotel Angeline

the long version

"Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mourtuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother's absence. The quirky tenants - a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by - rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows." -- From back cover.