Calvin tries to earn money to buy Stella, the babysitter, a present for her sixteenth birthday because he feels guilty for taking advantage of her allergy to cats.
"Hank Wolowitz and Inkling, his invisible bandapat friend, try to save the family ice-cream store's business from a whoopie pie food truck parked outside."--Provided by publisher.
Fifth-grader Abbie, descended from a long line of witches, tries to keep her family's magic powers secret from everyone she knows until her father brings home a kitten with some very unusual characteristics.
Sixth-grader Lucy B. Parker, having finally settled into her new life in New York City, is concerned when her friend tells her she needs to have three crushes and she does not have one, but after falling for a local guy and visiting Laurel in Los Angeles, she realizes having a crush is not always easy.
Lucy B. Parker loses her two best friends days before the start of sixth grade, but things get worse when her mother reveals that she has been dating Alan Moses, the father of the teenage celebrity Laurel Moses--who happens to be Lucy's archenemy.
When Calvin gets a school assignment to do some original research, he decides to investigate his dog's stinky breath and ends up learning about more than just smells.
In the winter of 1963, twelve-year-old Livy Two Weems struggles to decide whether to run off to Nashville to audition for a music career, while her mother struggles over whether to move the family out of Maggie Valley.
For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, R.B., and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again.