Max and his sister Ruby go on an egg hunt and vie with each other for the prize--a chocolate chicken.

A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.

Someone or something is making a mysterious tapping sound at midnight in the home of a famous inventor known for her one-of-a-kind clocks. There is an invention convention taking place in the home and the Alden children are competitors at the convention. Does the mysterious tapping mean trouble for the convention? The children are determined to find out.

Judy is excited about becoming a doctor, especially when Class 3T starts a new unit on the human body, but she learns more about being a patient when she catches tonsillitis from her little brother, Stink.

A boy has a hard time playing with his friend because his baby sister is hanging around yelling, "No, " about everything they try to do.

Edwin decides that his younger sister Emily is a pest, but sometimes she's a nice pest.

Froggy hoped for a brother to play with so he is disappointed with his new baby sister, Pollywogilina, but only until she is old enough to start learning from her big brother.

Lola brings the class guinea pig home for school vacation and when he escapes Charlie tries to help her find him before anything happens to him and before Lola has to go back to school.

"Takes readers through a day in the life of a middle kid, and all the challenges and advantages of a life in-between"--

A sister initially resents but then comes to love her new baby brother in this story.