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A little girl ignores the snickering of her older brother and his friend as she arranges a tea party for her dog and teddy bear, and eventually the boys find a reason to join the party.
When the Petersons go to visit Grandma's farm, she is not impressed by their unattractive dog Woof, but he redeems himself in her eyes by an act of bravery.
Marty loses his lucky baseball bat, and his confidence along with it, and wonders if he will recover both in time to help the Tigers win the championship.
Nine-year-old Pete and his friends, who enjoy playing pick-up soccer, get registered as an official team and discover the negative aspects of competition.
Owen, a second grader who is being teased for his small size, discovers that his friend Joseph is just as concerned about being overweight, and they share their fear of being humiliated by the school nurse.
The legend of a ghost on the island where he is spending the summer inspires money-hungry thirteen-year-old Derek to dupe his friends into paying admission to a supposedly haunted house.
When twelve-year-old Albert inherits a thousand dollars from an uncle, he decides that what he needs most is a zephyrcar--a flying machine that skims over the ground--to help him deliver papers on his morning route.
Hobie, whose fifth grade class is meeting in a shopping mall because the school was devastated by a flood, has a disagreement with his best friend Nick that escalates into a big fight as the day continues. Sequel to "Hobie Hanson, Greatest Hero of the Mall."
Twelve-year-old Missy determines to outdo her rival Stephanie and earn the most money for the class trip to Washington, D.C.
A fight with his best friend Mackie, one of the wealthy summer people who live part-time on his island, starts thirteen-year-old Pink wondering if they are envious of each other and if he himself really wants to go to school on the mainland.