"Little Pig is too small to go to sailing camp with his brothers and sisters, so his grandfather makes him a model ship, and together they sail it on the stream--until it gets carried away by the current, and Little Pig has to rescue the ship before it is wrecked."--Provided by Publisher.

Certain that his grandfather doesn't want him around, Corby is unhappy when he and his mother go to spend the summer in Wisconsin to help take care of his ailing grandmother, until a local boy takes him to the Wish Master.

The summer after sixth grade, Brad Stanislawski travels to Pennsylvania by himself to visit the grandfather he has never met before, and overcomes some of the preconceived ideas he has gotten from his mother.

Bunny thinks it's pretty weird when his dead grandfather tells him to go and get a tattoo in some sketchy tattoo parlor in a part of the city he's never been before. A part of the city where rival gangs roam the streets, and gun, drugs and violence are a way of life. A part of the city where Bunny stands out - and not always in a good way.

"Her younger brother can't wait to share what he's done on her drawing. But her anger explodes, and it's too late to take back her angry words, even though she is upset by what she said. The summer thunderstorm matches her feelings. When her grandfather asks her to play the thunder pause game she loves, she understands that she can count the pause between the flash and the boom instead of letting out her anger"--