A rainstorm sends a family from their long-awaited first house, with all of its leaks, onto the sleeping porch to enjoy the pleasures of the summer night.
Having moved with his mother to Los Angeles after his parents' divorce, ten-year-old Philip finds that he hates California and does everything in his power to get back to his relatives in Ohio.
A collection of three stories featuring the feisty Alexander, the boy who became famous when he experienced a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Benny hates his new life in Tunisia; none of the kids play his favorite sport, and he feels like he just doesn't fit in, until he is befriended by Omar, a wild boy living on his talent for buying, selling, and fixing things.