Blume, Judy

He knows a lot of big words, but he doesn't know where babies come from. He's never heard of a stork, but he plans to be a bird when he grows up. He's Superfudge, otherwise known as Farley Drexel Hatcher. And according to his older brother, Peter, the biggest pain ever invented. Among other things.

Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge.

A summer in Tarrytown, N.Y., is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she doesn't want to admit.

Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.

Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.