Left in the care of his older sister, a boy begs her to read his favorite book but she is too absorbed in her own reading even to notice when a tiger comes to life in the steam from his soup.
When her class splits into two clubs, the Puddle Jumpers and the Puddle Stompers, Amelia Bedelia is in a pickle, because both groups want her to join them.
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
Pinkalicious loves all things pink. When she eats too many pink cupcakes, she turns pink and the doctor tells her to eat nothing but green food for a week.