"There are zero reasons for Theo Ripley to look forward to his family vacation. Not only are he, sister Laura, and nature-obsessed Dad going to Big Bend, the least popular National Park, but once there, the family will be camping. And Theo is an indoor animal. It doesn't help that this will be the first vacation they're taking since Mom passed away. Once there, the family contends with 110 degree days, wild bears, and an annoying amateur ornithologist...

Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

Two teams of bats play an exciting nighttime baseball game.

Meat-eating and vegetarian dinosaurs compete at the wrestling jamboree, demonstrating such styles as sumo, Greco-Roman, and lucha libre.

Tired of following the strict rules of their grumpy replacement principal, second-grader A.J. and his classmates try to find a way to bring back eccentric but lovable Principal Klutz, who was fired for bringing a wild turkey to the school's Thanksgiving Day assembly.

Young readers are invited along on an automobile race, where they can see what it is like to race, take pit stops, and zoom around other cars.

A foal, born in the aftermath of a great storm, and her famous mother help raise money to repair the storm damage on Chincoteague Island and restore the herds of wild ponies on Assateague Island.

"When eleven-year-old Abby learns she will be attending summer camp, she is excited at the idea of a fresh start, but when she discovers she is going to Camp Famous, a place exclusively for famous kids like pop stars, princesses, and geniuses, her enthusiasm turns to apprehension"--Title verso page.

The meat-eating dinosaurs challenge the plant-eating dinosaurs to a hockey match.

When Caz Cadman moves with his family to the Seattle area, he quickly joins the local summer baseball team and worries that his new teammates will find out that he used to play baseball in Toronto as a girl named Cassandra.