A young girl befriends a squash.

On her very first day of school, Sophie is reluctant to make friends with the other children, preferring to play with two squash she grew in her garden -- but when a particularly persistent boy named Steven gives her a packet of seeds as an apology for accidentally ripping her picture, she realizes that it just takes time to grow a friend.

When Clarence Cochran wakes up one evening, he's shocked. Where are his antennae and his beautiful wings? And, what is this strange pair of shorts that he's wearing? Clarence has changed from a cockroach into a tiny human boy! The other cockroaches are disgusted. Only Clarence's mother understands. "Be who you are," she says. "You will do wonderful things." And, when the entire roach community, happily living in the messy Gilmartin kitchen, is threatened...

Retells in verse the old tale of the boy who climbed a beanstalk, killed a giant, and won a fortune.

Wallace P. Flynn loves smelly cheeses so much that his family leaves him, his dog and cats can't stand to be around him, and even the skunks have to move.

In this fictionalized account, Sunny Boy, a 100-year-old tortoise, describes various events in his long life including the dangerous barrel ride over Niagara Falls that he takes with his daredevil owner on July 5, 1930.

A cat's quiet life is disrupted one day when a window is broken, and after several frustrating attempts to find a suitable place, he winds up in the perfect spot.

After being separated from her parents by a hurricane on the bayou, a young girl is raised by an alligator and later must discover who she really is.