A talking dog, the Mack children and the small elf-like Gigglers themselves must try to stop the prank that the Gigglers have mistakenly set in motion to punish Mr. Mack for being mean to his children.
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
Collects "The Call of the Wild, " in which a dog in the Klondike reverts to wilderness life and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves; and "White Fang, " in which a wolf-dog trained to be a vicious fighter struggles to live in both the world of dogs and that of the humans, who show him love.
Princess Puppy is a real princess who enjoys dressing and acting like one, but when she finally makes a friend she discovers that having fun sometimes means compromising and trying new things.