A phonics-based story for readers in grades one through three in which Pat Glenn and Pat Scott, pen pals who share a name and have many things in common, get a big surprise when they finally meet face-to-face.
Molly's divorced aunt comes to live with the family, and Molly worries about her parents until she makes a new friend through the Pee Wee Scouts' pen pal project.
Andrew, the youngest member of the Black Cat Club, gets into serious trouble when his new pen pal turns out to be a ghost who takes possession of the unsuspecting second-grader.
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
From her home in back of the Grand View Restaurant in rural New York, Hannah writes letters to her best friend, a pen pal, and even to President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Madison and Jeremy are bitter enemies and are both running for president of their high school; but as the election gets nastier, Madison gets hooked up with an anonymous pen pal who calls himself Blue.