The inventive skills of Hooey Higgins and his friends are put to the test in an adventure that compels them to invent super-protective pants that they hope will safeguard them from crocodiles, flying toffee apples, and log-flume malfunctions.
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
On a school field trip to the state Capitol, Missy is dissapointed to learn that there is no gift shop and decides, along with her friend Oscar, to visit the governor to petition one.
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
Freddy, the Prince of Wales, overeducated and lacking charisma, is shipped off to America along with his beautiful, dimwitted wife, Fredericka, where they must travel incognito and without funds on a mission to reclaim the "colonies" for England.
Russell Hokes convinces his publisher to let him write about small-town America. When he hits the road, he ends up in Wigfield, a bucolic hideaway in the path of a soon-to-be-demolished dam, and decides to try and save the town.
