Sarah Weeks

Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.

Pip Squeak the mouse is kept awake all night by the drips from his leaky roof.

Mac finally convinces his best friend Cheese to go to the beach, but then they miss the bus.

Mrs. McNosh's dog breaks his leash and leads her on a merry chase in the park, disrupting a wedding and a ballgame.

While Catfish Kate and her friends are making sweet swamp music, Skink and his Skunktail boys are trying to read and they demand that the girls be quiet, but Kate finds a clever compromise.

When Sam the lamb has trouble sneezing, the other animals try to help.

A young boy protects and encourages a newly hatched sea turtle until it finds its way to the sea.