Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.

George the monkey goes riding on his new bicycle and runs into unexpected adventure.

A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.

A child's two grandfathers relate their boyhood experiences of the "terrible blizzard of 1888," during which each was stuck for three days doing what he disliked the most.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Stein love their son very much, but despite their best efforts and his, it seems he will never look or act as scary as a Stein should.

When Hippo asks her friends to be her valentine, they all refuse because she is different.

A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.

Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.

When homeschooled farm girl Piper McCloud reveals her ability to fly, she is quickly taken to a secret government facility to be trained with other exceptional children, but she soon realizes that something is very wrong and begins working with brilliant and wealthy Conrad to escape.

While observing other contestants practice for the Sunny Patch Pinecone Derby, Snowdrop decides that she cannot be graceful with eight legs, and tries to make herself more like an insect.