One day when Harry comes home from school, his faithful companion Hopper isn't there to greet him, in a touching story about the process of heali

When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once

While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the way

When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whos

Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker

"No fair! Karen is having a bad-luck day. Her favorite jeans are missing. There's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box. And Boo-Boo the cat runs a

Betty Bunny's mother takes her and her siblings to a toy store where each is allowed to pick out one item, but Betty refuses to choose just one a

Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by followi

James Patterson introduces his hilarious new heroine, Jacky Ha-Ha, a class clown who makes people laugh with her so they can't laugh at her. With

When Billy Twitters' mother follows through on her threat to buy him a blue whale if he refuses to obey, he finds himself the owner of an enormou

Five funny stories about Bernice Lorraine Sherwin-Hendricks, known as Beany. Beany tends to worry about everything. Her worries turn to schemes a

Although Sophie wants to be helpful and good, sometimes she ignores her mother, father, and grandmother and must have a time-out.