When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that moves out of his control.

Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.

Fifth-grader Jack finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger on his father.

Children often dream of getting things from Santa, but this story lets them w onder about really being Santa for a night. From the time that children make that first little gift for mom or dad and bring it home from nursery school hidden in a paper sack, they learn more and more about the fun it is to be the one who gives.

Describes, in rhyming text and illustrations, the characteristics of tools commonly found in most workshops.

Slippers the puppy would rather pay attention to interesting smells, sounds, and sights than take a nap.

When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.

Haiku poems about a loveable dog.

When things go wrong during a day at the beach, like a ball that drifts away or a gooey ice cream mess, a father could do a lot of things but always picks the loving one.

A young woman and her husband are glad that they gave a stray kitten a home when it saves their lives by alerting them to a gas leak.