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Gerald, a cautious and pessimistic elephant, believes he is allergic to his best friend, the optimistic and occasionally reckless Piggie, and is concerned that he will need to stay away from his pal forever.

Amelia Bedelia, a literal-minded first-grader, finds her first day of school filled with confusing adventures--much to her delight.

A young boy swaps his father for two goldfish, but when his mother sends him to retrieve his dad, he learns that his somewhat boring, newspaper-reading father has been traded on down the line.

After besting the giant and stealing the golden goose Jack is determined to help out his mother, but when a trip to the grocery store goes awry, Jack realizes he will have to try harder to understand what makes his mother happy.

A story told mostly through letters in which busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I.

Piggy loves to dance and wants to teach everyone, including her best friend, Gerald the elephant.

Piggie ruins a perfectly good day by telling Gerald the elephant that she is going, sending him into a panic.

Four separate stories tell, in words and cartoons, the surprising history and activities of the ordinary backpack.

When Stink discovers that Pluto has been downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet, he launches a campaign in his classroom to restore its status to that of a full-fledged member of the solar system.

When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr.

Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

A.J. and his friends are forced to take classes even during recess, but their teacher, Mrs.

Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.

Mr. Granite is assigned a new student teacher but A.J. and his friends become convinced that she is actually a vampire who lives in a cave and plays in a heavy metal band with her zombie boyfriend.

Having recovered their human shape, Emeralda and Eadric try to help Aunt Grassina find the special objects needed to break the spell that turned Grassina's true love, Haywood, into an otter.