After a burglary in the neighborhood, Roy's dad insists that Space Dog guard the house. Space Dog can spell and talk but scaring away robbers is not something Space Dog does.
When Michael and Norman's sock-eating plants are chosen for the space program, the boys' whole school gets involved by building a mock spaceship, trying space food, and counting down to blast-off.
Jon, his little brother Michael, and his best friend Gemma, are trapped in the world of dinosaurs when they follow a baby stegosaurus through a time warp in the basement.
As Amelia Bedelia helps Mrs. Rogers prepare for Christmas, she bakes a date cake with a calendar in it and stuffs the children's stockings with turkey stuffing.
Jessie, an elderly calligrapher who writes announcements and notices of birth, marriage, and death for the townsfolk, discovers that she has the ability to predict the future in her writings.
The doomed flight of two young indentured servants from their unkind master brings together an unlikely assortment of people in a mid-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania town.
