It should be the happiest moment of Jean's life -- instead of the most embarrassing. Why couldn't she have been ready when the best-looking, most popular boy in the school asked her to dance?

The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the Bricker household.

In the spring of 1768, twelve-year-old Peter, living with his Quaker guardian near the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border, joins in the search for two runaway indentured servants.

Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.

More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during show and tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School."

A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.

A collection of jokes, riddles, and other witticisms.

With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process.