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Feeling neglected, Nora makes more and more noise to attract her parents' attention.

Although Sophie wants to be helpful and good, sometimes she ignores her mother, father, and grandmother and must have a time out. Sophie means to be a good little mouse, but she just can't resist testing the limits with her patient parents and grandmother. Eat supper? More fun to throw it on the floor. old the laundry? More fun to knock over the pile. Read with Grandma? More fun to steal her glasses. And then it's time out for Sophie! Rosemary Wells...

On Christmas morning, Sophie discovers that good things often come in small packages.

Stella is unnerved by a bullying group of weasels who say mean things about her humble home until her mother offers words of comfort and her father drives the trailer to a new location where kind friends are found.

"Sophie's parents tell her to say 'Hello, ' 'Thank-you, ' and 'Goodbye, ' but the words stick like glue in Sophie's mouth and won't come out"--